Julia Child Quotes

My take, after spending some time with him, is that Kanye West is not a conservative. He's not a Republican, but he is a free thinker, and he's an independent thinker.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

I didn't suddenly become conservative. It was only the label that changed.

When you walk through that door of opportunity you don't slam it shut behind you.

I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one—at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

You can change anything about yourself quite quickly. All you have to do is give up the belief system that says that it takes a long time to change.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.

The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

You know, you can only cram your beliefs down a young kid's throat for so long before he goes, "you know, the other side seems to be having a lot more fun."

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.

In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.

A perspective that allows you to consistently make decisions based on the right set of criteria. Positivity and forward thinking. I work on that one every day, and every day I get a little better. Better at knowing that there is no obstacle that I cannot overcome. Nothing I can be faced with that I won't grow mentally stronger and wiser from having endured.

I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.

I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

Always look ahead, but never look back.