I heard two great quotes last night while watching Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares on the Food Network.
“The name is not critical, the change is crucial.”
“Safe means we’re in the sh**!”
- Gordon Ramsay
The first quote is concerning a restauranteur’s reluctance to change his restaurant’s name and make the necessary changes to start fresh. It struck me as enlightening because we often find it hard to make changes in our lives even though they are for the better. When we live in the past, we are hesitant to change our ways and not willing to start from scratch, not realizing that we have more experience and talent than when we started from scratch before. Especially as times change, we need to keep ourselves up to date and conscious of our present day situation, despite the hardships and fears accumulated from the past.
The second quote emphasizes on the first and is just plain hilarious when heard in context. It arises from the restauranteur doubting that a name change will bring him more business, and believing that if he stayed where he was, he would be safe (but also neck deep in debt). I tend to agree with this quote although it may seem reckless at first. Playing it safe doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll end up in the deep-end, but playing safe definitely doesn’t leave any room for fun or spontaneity, and if you like an exciting lifestyle then playing safe would not get you anywhere.
So that’s just my two cents on some intellectually inspiring quotes. I don’t usually pay attention to famous quotes, let alone try to identify them and write them down, but these two definitely seemed unique and ~nutritional~.