Andrea Illy Quotes

“Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting”

Andrea Illy

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• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Up
  • You
  • Growing

• The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Family
  • Society
  • Personality

• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Gay

• If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Giving
  • Best
  • Effort

• When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

  

  Ira Glass
  • College
  • Body
  • Theory

• As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Lose

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
  • Feels

• The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Fun
  • Management
  • Workplace

• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Game

• I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.

  

  Artur Schnabel
  • Art

• Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Time

• I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to record things. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to kind of try to leave some kind of record behind.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Why

• It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • America

• The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• His partitioning of the octave in the first ten bars places Varèse with Scriabin and the Schoenberg circle among the revolutionary composers whose work initiates the beginning of a new mainstream tradition in the music of our century.

  

  George Perle
  • Music
  • Tradition
  • Century

• I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.'

  

  Lee Daniels
  • People
  • Important
  • Black

• My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Development

• Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

  

  Jon Postel
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Football

• I think if companies start reinventing themselves and focus on the customer experience more, they will win out in the end.

  

  Alfred Lin
  • Experience
  • Focus

• “Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting”

  

  Andrea Illy
  • Experience
  • Consumption
  • Espresso