Kelly Cutrone famous quotes

The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Soul #Needs #Lessons

Do your best and become as successful as you can because the more powerful you become, the smaller the other person gets, right? So it's like the bigger you are, the better you become, the less power other people have over you. The best thing to do is to always compete with yourself and not to compete with others.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Powerful #Successful #People

I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Dream #People #Parent

You could be jealous of a girl who's not as pretty as you, but you just have that feeling that she's going to take your dude, and you might be right. Or you might be jealous of somebody who's not as good at their job as you, but you have this feeling that she's got that something extra that's going to help her move ahead. Whatever it is, you might have that weird feeling, and you might be right.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Girl #Jobs #Moving

You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Hate #Average #People

The best thing to do is just know that there's a big difference between style and fashion, and that one doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Fashion #Differences #Style

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Persistence #Doors #Voice

The whole thing about magazines is that, magazines are going to become deeper and more tutorial, and the nature of the magazine is going to change.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Tutorial #Magazines #Deeper

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Believe #Heart #Forgotten

Belts with potbellies are pretty bad. I mean, what about an oversized shirt and a trouser? What about an oversized button-up shirt in linen and a trouser? Do us all a favor.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Mean #Buttons #Favors

If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Dream #Community #Choices

When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle without having a hard time. Everybody in their lives has a hard period. I don't know anybody who's ever been alive who hasn't had like, heartbreak, despair, depression, death, drug or alcohol, or weight problems, or health problems.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Hard Times #People #Alcohol

When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Dream #Lonely #Fall

For the consumer, fashion is fashion. You can buy something beautiful for $20 and you can buy something ugly for $1,000. It comes down to style. As far as the industry as a whole, it is hard to say. I don't like to separate the worlds.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Beautiful #Fashion #Style

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Voice #Clothes #Sample

My life is not balanced and not everything is perfect all the time.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Perfect #Life Is #Balanced

If you aren’t hearing your inner voice, it could mean you’re overburdened or not stimulated enough, or that you’ve learned to shut it off because the people around you have refused to engage it. Perhaps you’ve had a hardening of the arteries around your soul. I believe the choices we make in our lives and the people and places surrounding us increase the volume of our inner voice, decrease it, or annihilate it entirely.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Believe #Mean #Voice

A lot of people have the misconception that modeling is a glamourous job, and it can be. But ultimately if you don't like to stay quiet, and let people tell you what to do, and fuss on you... it may not be the right fit. If you decide it's something you're really passionate about though, go for it!
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Jobs #People #Passionate

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Inspirational Life #Challenges #Faces

When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Party #Time To Leave #Persons

Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Life #Fear #Business

When you believe in something and truly go after it with all you have, amazing things will happen.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Believe

If you're 5' 6", just stay home. Don't pretend you're 5' 8" or 5' 9". If you want to be a beauty model, I guess that's fine, you can do glamour, but you're not going to do runway. If you're over 29 - 26, even - I would suggest you work regionally and not try to work nationally.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Home #Trying #Want

If people decide thin is out, the fashion industry won't have thin models anymore. Have you spent time with fashion people? They are ruthless. They want money. And the one thing they know is people want clothes to cover their bodies. Unfortunately, most people aren't comfortable with their bodies.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Fashion #Clothes #People

Stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Dream #People #Parent

I’m a really big believer that we all have this voice inside of us, and that voice is God talking to us, and we are all magical, and we all have something as specific to do as our fingerprint. And everybody should go out and do that. And I think between the ages of 15 and 32, don’t worry about getting married, don’t worry about settling down, don’t worry about having a baby. Give birth to yourself.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Baby #Thinking #Talking

Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Mom #Motherhood #Blessing

I think between the ages of 15 and 32, don't worry about getting married, don't worry about settling down, don't worry about having a baby. Give birth to yourself.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Baby #Thinking #Giving

I had the most expensive haircut you can get, and I was walking around with my hair in rollers backstage, and my hair still came out looking like I was shot out of a cannon and I had just gotten out of bed.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Hair #Bed #Shots

We're all hookers in one way or another.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Way

I would never rep Versace. I can't stand her. I think she makes disgusting clothes. Calvin [Klein] is like, snore! Who wears Calvin Klein? I'm not dissing him. I think he's built an amazing, respectable business, but I would never want to work for Calvin Klein, ever.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Thinking #Clothes #Want

After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Pain #Joy #Empty

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Dream #Life Is Short #Yellow

B*tch: a reflection of people’s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won’t comply.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Powerful #Creativity #Reflection

I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with finding ourselves: learning to quiet the clamor in our minds and the voices of everyone around us and move toward what feels right – toward the things we know, for reasons we can’t explain, that we’re mean to do, the things that makes us feel alive.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Believe #Moving #Mean

Take the years when you’re young – say, between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five, before you have a mortgage or kids or anything else that needs to be fed – and go balls out on intuition and follow your dreams. Dreams won’t always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they’re usually related to what your soul wants for you. They’ll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they’ll kick your ass, and most importantly, they’ll turn you on.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Dream #Kids #Destiny

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Who You Are

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Voice #People #Entrepreneur

I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Fashion #Fighting #World

We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell the truth or speak our mind or say anything too intense. Well, I'm telling you here that this approach not only makes you party to other people's crimes against themselves but is a prescription for mediocrity and delusion
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Party #People #Mind

In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#People #Culture #Razors

My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Teacher #Mistake #Best Teacher

The only dream I ever had was the dream of New York itself, and for me, from the minute I touched down in this city, that was enough. It became the best teacher I ever had.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Dream #Teacher #New York

You can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Fake #Tables #Way

Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Fashion #Purple #People

There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashion? Yes, it can be. But does fashion transform a woman who might feel like nothing and unimportant to glamorous and gorgeous? Yes, it does. Does it employ a huge sector of America? Yes, it does.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Fashion #America #Doe

People should just express themselves and not worry about trends - try to use fashion like a compass, an indicator, examples of things that you can be. It's not to be taken so seriously. It's just clothes.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Fashion #Taken #Clothes

We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Hair #Shoes #Gold

People want to express themselves - that's what fashion is for. You can go to Target and get something that Rodarte designed for $34, but would you want to go buy the higher version for $3,400? I think most people would say no.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Fashion #Thinking #People

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Sweet #Angel #Waiting

I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Mom #Lonely #Real

Baby-carrying means your hearts are close together. It's a very intense and beautiful way to bond with your baby, very intimate. It's also easier than a stroller.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Beautiful #Baby #Heart

It’s one thing if you are a luxury brand and have been around for 60 years and can weather the retail storm we’ve had, but if you are a new brand that’s just starting out — whether you are a writer or a retailer — innovating through social media is crucial. Those that are hidden and guarded will not progress.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Media #Years #Weather

Personal branding is about figuring who you are and what turns you on and then monetising it
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Branding #Turns #Personal Branding

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Bad Day #Years #Forever

I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Journey #Expeditions

I believe everyone who breathes air on this earth, regardless of their job or their bank account, must give back more than just carbon dioxide.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Jobs #Believe #Air

Most fashion models do not look good in bikinis because they're too thin.
-- Kelly Cutrone

#Fashion #Looks #Bikinis