Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

I'm bad at baking.

I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted to write a book where desserts had to be extensively researched, since I have a terrible sweet tooth. My particular downfall is cake.

I can't bake anything. I'm the worst. My cakes always come out flat.

I love food and lots of my friends are chefs. I love dishes from my Russian-Polish Jewish heritage. I like to make a big pot of meat and vegetable soup, and for dessert it's anything with chocolate.

I'm known for my desserts.

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Without risk, there can be no growth.

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

The only mistake is not to risk making one.

Remember, the greatest failure is not to try.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.