Grace Chatto Quotes

I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.

No is an unacceptable answer. I'm allergic to no.

The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

I've always given people the benefit of the doubt until they prove me otherwise.

I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

I think I have terminal curiosity. So I always think that the future will be better and different than the past. As I look back and take inventory of myself, I'm very open-minded and flexible. People say the older you get, you get set in your ways. I don't think so.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business.

I'm kind of like, "never say never."

I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible.

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I never say never about anything.