Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation– experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.

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""You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.""

- Paul Theroux

Awareness

"Winter is a season of recovery and preparation."

- Paul Theroux

Personal Growth

"I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better."

- Paul Theroux

Personal Growth

"Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going."

- Paul Theroux

Insight

"Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation—experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way."

- Paul Theroux

Learning from Mistakes

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"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

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