There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.
When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.
Its not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it's about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then u'll be a great cook.
This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.
Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.
Success is measured by the memories you create.
I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
I'm on the verge of taking a stand.
Seems like we always spend the best part of our time. . . just saying goodbye.