“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”
― Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times
― Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times
“I just want to be right—I don’t care if the right answer comes from me.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“The most valuable habit I’ve acquired is using pain to trigger quality reflections. If you can acquire this habit yourself, you will learn what causes your pain and what you can do about it, and it will have an enormous impact on your effectiveness.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“Having the basics—a good bed to sleep in, good relationships, good food, and good sex—is most important, and those things don’t get much better when you have a lot of money or much worse when you have less. And the people one meets at the top aren’t necessarily more special than those one meets at the bottom or in between.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.”
― My Life in France
― My Life in France
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