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If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.


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ALAIN PROST The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions su...
ALAIN ASPECT It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with every...
ALAIN PROST It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the ...
ALAIN DUCASSE . . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imag...
ALAIN LOCKE I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet p...
ALAIN DUCASSE Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how...
ALAIN DUCASSE You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.
ALAIN DUCASSE The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
ALAIN RESNAIS Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could ha...
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