Good food is a celebration of life.
Sophia LorenRead
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.
Interpretation
Believing in yourself is essential for success in challenging fields.
Sophia Loren emphasizes the importance of self-belief and confidence when navigating a tough profession. In a landscape filled with obstacles, having a strong faith in one's own abilities is crucial to overcoming challenges and achieving success.
In practice
In a motivational speech to young professionals starting their careers.
Good food is a celebration of life.
The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.
I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.
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