It's easy to get the feeling that you know the language just because when you order a beer they don't bring you oysters. (Paul Child) - Julia Child

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

In fact, I didn't like traveling first class at all. Yes, it was nice to have a bathroom in a hotel and fine service at breakfast...but none of it seemed foreign enough for me. It was all so pleasantly bland that I felt as if I were back on the SS America. I don't like it when everyone speaks perfect English; I'd much rather struggle with my phrasebook.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.