"With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when youâ€™ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. Whatâ€™s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? Â Itâ€™s the desire."

-- Thomas Keller

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“While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.”
“I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.”
“Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.”
“You can cruise the world's millions of omega-3 Web sites without encountering any reflections about where these prized fatty acids are coming from and at what social or environmental cost. For some people, what goes into their bodies has become an overriding obsession. Perhaps we are witnessing a successor to the Me Generation--namely, the Don't Care About the Rest of the World as Long as I Have a Spa and Some Omega-3 Fatty Acids Generation. Let's call it the Omega-3 Generation for short. Or is that thought just too depressing?”
“Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.”
“Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.”
“He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.”

Source : Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.112, Penguin
“You have to be interested in culture to design for it.”

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