It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever. Anthony Bourdain More Quotes by Anthony Bourdain More Quotes From Anthony Bourdain Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. Anthony Bourdain change life travel It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. Anthony Bourdain enlightenment mind mean If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move. Anthony Bourdain ocean travel moving As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Anthony Bourdain return travel moving Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain enlightenment finals mind your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. Anthony Bourdain amusement body food Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. Anthony Bourdain taught skills character Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go. Anthony Bourdain tribes grandma feelings Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do. Anthony Bourdain innovation excellence people You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. Anthony Bourdain meals share together Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it. Anthony Bourdain drink regret running Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. Anthony Bourdain hurt beautiful travel In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you. Anthony Bourdain way-to-live interest people Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining. Anthony Bourdain assuming self jobs Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. Anthony Bourdain fabulous simple food Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay busy... That's just the nature of my demons. Anthony Bourdain guy should-have enemy No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. Anthony Bourdain appreciate hard-work dream That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund. Anthony Bourdain static food trying In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the best restaurants in New York, you'll find something similar to it in Paris or Copenhagen or Chicago. But there is no place like New Orleans. So it's a must-see city because there's no explaining it, no describing it. You can't compare it to anything. So, far and away New Orleans. Anthony Bourdain new-orleans cities new-york If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go. Anthony Bourdain sleep two travel
