I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
Robert MondaviRead
Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.
Interpretation
Criticism can lead to improvement and growth in the wine industry.
Robert Mondavi suggests that critics play a vital role in the wine industry by providing feedback that drives quality and innovation. Their evaluations and insights can help winemakers refine their products, ultimately benefiting the industry as a whole.
In practice
In a speech about innovation in the wine industry, one might quote this to highlight the role of constructive criticism.
Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.
You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.
In the 1970s in black and Asian households up and down the country, there's a familiar story that when we saw a non-white person on TV we would call the rest of the family to the sitting room to have a look. The story that is less well known is what it was like to be that one black person on TV.
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
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