There will always be things coming up out of the blue. No matter how many techniques we learn, life will always be full of unexpected twists and turns. . . .

That's why there will always be the same amount to do. In fact, there will always be an infinity of things to do. We can never get our life or our business or our kitchen running exactly the way we want it to run. No matter how we envision it, it can't be that way.

Bernard Glassman, Rick Fields, Instructions to the Cook