"A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time."

-- Thomas Keller

#Long Quotes #Meals Quotes #Periods Quotes

“Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.”
“But if we hide ourselves away, afraid to grow and learn, we might wake up in the flames of the ignorance that burns and we'll never be much more than only casualties of war in a struggle we can't win if we have no faith to begin. We've got to tip the lid and let some sunlight in.”

Source : "Song: 'The People of The Boxes' ('The Prophet's Hands')". 2003.
“most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass ...”
“When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush to the last page, the falling into a character's life, the deeper understanding we've gotten of a place or a time, or the feeling of reading words that are put together in a way that causes us to look at the world differently. We need to start thinking about what it is about a book that draws us in, rather than what the book is about.”
“You want to understand the smallest feature set customers will pay for in the first release.”

Source : Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits (2010). “The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany”, p.39, CustDev
“You're alive, you might as well be glad.”
“I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.”
“You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.”

You may also like: