"Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure."

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Source : "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.

Ferran Adria

#Risk Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.”
“Painting is saying "Ta" to God.”

Source : In letter from Spencer's daughter Shirin, Observer 7 Feb. 1988
“It's hard to articulate what everybody else is feeling.”
“I know where I'm putting my money”
“Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us â€” that is what haunts me. I donâ€™t know what it means.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.206, Wave Books
“Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.”
“For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.”
“I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.”

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