“One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.”
"Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. The journey changes you; it should change you."
- Anthony Bourdain
Transformation
"I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer."
- Anthony Bourdain
Self-awareness
"If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business."
- Anthony Bourdain
Self-awareness
"I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times."
- Anthony Bourdain
Happiness
"Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."
- Anthony Bourdain
Happiness
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity