The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

I’m not a natural joiner.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

I’m an emotional person.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.

Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I didn’t play with other children.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

A man’s character is his fate.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d’Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don’t know what will happen. This pressure is inside you – you always have it.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I’ve never been interested in that.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.