Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring out what type of business I really wanted to do I was cooking for all of my friends and reading cookbooks and really inspired by the idea of travel and types of foods around the world and I wanted to cook them.

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.