Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'
I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.
I need to broaden my horizons.
Recast your current problems into proactive goals.
My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.
Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.
I'm constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself.
You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.
Let the dataset change your mindset
To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.
Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that’s what the mind is for.
Change your mind and it will change your life. If nothing around you changes, changes the things that are around you.
I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.
It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long, and it's time to really get my hands dirty and get in the trenches and see the world for what it really is.
Every time something is taken away, you're forced to take a step back and realize how much that thing means to you. You don't realize what you've got until it's gone.
That's what you do with the worst day ever: you flip it on its back.
What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking differently than they went in.
Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do.
You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.
If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.
I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.
