Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'
If you haven't really raced a lot in lower categories, and you make the jump to Formula One, you have to learn in Formula One, and a lot more people are watching.
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.
It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.
The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.
I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.
I've had a lot of baptism by fire.
I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.
