Anja Rubik Quotes

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

I try to do different things, beautiful things, to play the game the way I see it, and I think I'm doing it pretty well.

Your talent is in your choice.

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful Puerto Rico a chance to travel, explore the world, meet amazing people, work for great charities and be a voice to empower women wherever I went. For all those things, I am grateful.

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I've done in the past has made me what I am now. Not everyone is going to like what I do, but I look back at everything, and it makes me smile.

Basketball is the axis that allows me to do the things that I do. I have so much love for the game, and it gives me to the option to be able to jump into fashion.

I feel really fortunate to come from a home that was always supportive and stemming from creativity, integrity and building character.

Wanting to be better as an actor, model, and person in general motivates me to push myself.

Do your homework. Find your voice. Be authentic. And then dive in with purpose.

Personal style says so much about who you are. What you wear can entice different things from within you.

I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of about being a woman who loves fashion. Fashion is a vehicle for self-expression, it tells the world who you are and how you want to be seen. If you use it as a canvas for creativity, then you might want to talk about it, you know? And I fully embrace that.

I think everyone should be creative in some way, otherwise you have no self-respect. That's why I believe in women working.

Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.

For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

Volunteer. Sometimes the jobs no one wants conceal big opportunities.

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

I'm still the same artist; it's just different sides of me. I'm learning to be a little bit more confident in myself and I think that's something that all of us girls struggle with. It's really about defining your confidence.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

Style is what one creates....glamou r is a state of mind.

I'm hugely inspired by music. I am a big listener of 60's and 70's classic rock. And i really just love the overall freedom of that time, of the late 60's and 70's. I love that you had so many different ways of expressing yourself, fashion was really one of them, the idea of clashing didn't exist, and people were using clothes as an opportunity to express who they were. That is inspiring to me - you could mix textiles, fabrics, you were 100% who you were, and that's where my main inspiration comes from.

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.