Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun.

Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavors when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients.

Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.

Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her.

I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine.

I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.