#ground

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#because #believes #better #celebrity #chef

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #engineers #function #functional #had

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. ↗

— Brian Eno

#dangerous #erupt #evaluation #feelings #grow

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true. ↗

— Charles Vest

#advanced #agency #been #bit #come

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground. ↗

— Chogyam Trungpa

#conquering #earth #ground #often #people

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#fact #gimmick #in fact #just #me

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#grounded #my own #own #reinforced #spiritual

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#characters #ground #i #kind #most

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#better #desk #dinner #dinner party #get