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Book cover for Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview (Kindle Single)
When it’s a job. You reach this point where you dread foie gras. It’s like, truffles again? You’re the wrong person to be writing about food. It should be a joy. It should be special and exciting. Oh, wow! White truffles!
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Epictetus
“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
Epictetus

Orison Swett Marden
“Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.”
Orison Swett Marden

Terry Pratchett
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

Steve Jobs
“Creativity is just connecting things.”
Steve Jobs

Elizabeth Gilbert
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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