Mings Kitchen Quotes & Sayings

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame. — Meg Cabot

The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly - without judgment, without need or fear, without wishes or hopes. Without emotional expectations. Ask your work what it needs, not what you need. Then set aside your fears and listen, the way a good parent listens to a child — David Bayles

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour. — Mikhail Kalashnikov

There are no shortcuts to good golf. The better players realize this. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

How can you make your change a matter of identity rather than a matter of consequences? — Chip Heath

In 1971, for instance, a trio from Harvard observed ninety mother-toddler pairs for five hours and found that on average, mothers gave a command, told their child no, or fielded a request (often "unreasonable" or "in a whining tone") every three minutes. Their children, in turn, obeyed on average only 60 percent of the time. This is not exactly a formula for perfect mental health. — Jennifer Senior