"Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with great expectation battling the cynicism of experience. You sit waiting, wondering about the upcoming moments of revelation. Somewhere in the back of your head is the dour warning that disappointment is inevitable but you don't really believe it or you wouldn't be there. The best eaters are always optimists."

-- Stuart Stevens

#Disappointment Quotes #Believe Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.”
“In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains - may change human beings themselves.”
“You are what you pretend to be.”

Source : Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity (2011). “Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas”, p.161, Random House
“No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.”
“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”
“Playing live if the thing I love doing best”
“By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.”

Source : Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.305, Penguin

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