I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.
Neil GaimanRead
If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.
Interpretation
The quote humorously highlights how different professions deal with mistakes in their work.
In this quote, Paul Bocuse playfully contrasts the ways various professions respond to errors, suggesting that while architects, doctors, and cooks may all make mistakes, they have unique and humorous strategies for hiding or reinterpreting them. The light-hearted tone implies that creativity can often emerge from errors, and challenges us to embrace our imperfections with a sense of humor.
In practice
In a workshop about creativity, this quote can inspire participants to rethink how they view mistakes.
I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?
If Hamilton were on Twitter, he would have been a worse oversharer than me.
Not here not there not anywhere!
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