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Success is born out of luck. Luck is being given the opportunity, but it's awareness of mind that takes advantage of that opportunity.

— Marco Pierre White

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Perfection is lots of little things done well.

Most of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

Wild Food from Land and Sea (1994)

Rudeness is not "having fun", and if it is, it's at the expense of another person.

To start giving three stars straight away from year one makes you question Michelin and its value—they dish out stars like confetti now.

It is only by growing to know yourself that you do things for the right reasons and maybe have a chance to be really happy and realise your true potential as a person.

Marco Pierre White in Hell's Kitchen (2008)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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