Paul Prudhomme Quotes

Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.

I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with somebody who has the ambition to play in the NBA. I watch a basketball game; I enjoy it. Somebody who really wants to learn to play is studying whatever is most magnificent that's going on out there.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what's around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of buildings look like, what noises do you hear? If you bring your analytical powers to bear, you can make almost anything interesting.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

We wish that in all parts of the Kingdom many will become wise and knowledgeable, by having access to a fountain of knowledge, and a seminary of doctrine., so that they, made proficient by study and observationwill serve divine justice and will become useful to us, for the administration of Justice and of the laws which we urge everyone to obey. We have therefore decided that in the most pleasant city of Naples there should be teaching of the arts and of all disciplines so that those who are starved for knowledge will find it in our own kingdom, and will not be forced in their search for knowledge, to become pilgrims and to beg in foreign lands.