Julia Child Quotes

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I discovered myself!

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

Know thyself.

I don't think or write from big ideals.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

I hit a brick wall one day, and I spent a lot of time by myself learning about me and who I am and what I want and don't want.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.