#cultivate

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#apprenticeship #aspirations #becoming #began #cooking

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#cultivate #public #whatever #you #yourself

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. ↗

— Horace

#both #cultivates #envy #golden #hovel

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone. ↗

— James Baldwin

#alone #artist #avoid #being #being alone

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. ↗

— William Beveridge

#among #citizens #cultivate #democracy #dictators

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday. ↗

— Bob Feller

#baseball #cultivated #doubt #ever #father

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#between #cultivates #difference #former #forms

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work. ↗

— Tory Burch

#build #change #companies #create #cultivate

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#came #could #cultivate #dreamt #england

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#appearance #band #big #cultivated #gimmick