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I had a spell no more striking than other people of my job description. I did all the things you weren't supposed to do. I had a motto: When in doubt, try it. I went out and committed experience. ”
It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid. ”
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. ”
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. ”
I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career. ”
In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships. ”
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. ”
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. ”
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. ”
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. ”