Heston Blumenthal Quotes

• You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Needs, Compromise, Standards

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• Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Heart, Eye, Noses

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• I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Needs, Succeed, Scared

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• If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu

  Heston Blumenthal

  Goes On, Taste, Menus

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• As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Creativity, Kids, Thinking

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• It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Food, Hockey, Ice Cream

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• You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Memories, Memorable, Thinking

  "Heston Blumenthal: 'My food is really emotional'" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Desire, Faults, Improving

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• I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Effort, Determined, Dues

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• Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Pleasure, Notes, Senses

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• At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Book, Home, Gone

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• I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Eight, Years, Voice

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• Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Hours, Complaints

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• Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Numbers, World, Restaurants

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• No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Fall, Waiting, Clock

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• I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Photography, Fashion, Art

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• You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Dvds, Release Date, Life Is

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• I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Trying, Different, Way

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• I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Writing, Hands, Knives

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• There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Ocean, Taken, Blue

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• I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Morning, Lucky, Want

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• I tend to take negative comments to heart.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Heart, Negative, Comment

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• This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me.

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  Kings, Kitchen, Care

  "Heston Blumenthal: 'I like a kebab as much as the next person'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2011.

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• But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

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  Hobbies, Aspect, Enjoyable

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• I am not the world's most confident person.

  Heston Blumenthal

  World, Persons

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