QuoteProject
Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?
Sade Adu
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

This quote emphasizes the importance of being present and fully engaged in each activity.

Sade Adu's quote highlights the value of mindfulness and dedication in everyday tasks. By being fully present and invested in what you are doing, whether it be cooking or any other activity, you enhance the quality of the experience and ensure that your efforts are meaningful. It serves as a reminder that doing something well is more fulfilling than simply going through the motions without appreciation.

Themes

MindfulnessPresenceDedicationQualityEngagement

In practice

Example use cases

This quote could be shared during a motivational talk about personal growth.

More from Sade Adu

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.
Sade AduRead

Similar quotes

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
Katharine HepburnRead
I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me? ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)
Cornell WoolrichRead
Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.
Marc JacobsRead
For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.
Otto RankRead
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
Ben OkriRead
So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.
Nicole KraussRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.