"It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to."

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Source : Interview with Joanne Camas, www.epicurious.com.

Grant Achatz

#Cooking Quotes #Levels Quotes #Push Yourself Quotes

“Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.”
“My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.”
“There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.”
“Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.”
“The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.”
“YouÂ´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.”
“I have so much love that I didn't even know about.”
“Language is by its very nature a communal thing...”

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