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Look Quotes

On perspective, hindsight and how we choose to see things.

The quotes here range from looking back on a career with no regrets to noticing how children in very different places can end up facing strikingly similar struggles. For more on outlook, see our Life quotes.

Look good, feel good, play good.

Quotes by Jacob deGrom

When I'm overseas, I suspect I look like Mr. Bean.

Quotes by Jacob Rees-Mogg

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the...

Quotes by Jacob Riis

I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew...

Quotes by Jacob Riis

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

Quotes by Jacob Riis

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

Quotes by Jackie Tabick

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to...

Quotes by Jackson Browne

Joseph Zawinul does overkill, and his technological overkill sucks, but there's no friction between us; I just say, 'Look,' and that's it. Do you have any idea how much music I learned from him?

Quotes by Jaco Pastorius

I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

Quotes by Jackie Evancho

It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

Quotes by Jackie Joyner-Kersee

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Quotes by Jackie Joyner-Kersee

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to...

Quotes by Jackie Robinson

I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.

Quotes by Jack Whitehall

If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

Quotes by Jack Whitehall

I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

Quotes by Jack Wild

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Quotes by Jack Prelutsky

Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.

Quotes by Jack Reed

The player I look up to is Rio Ferdinand. I have always played at the back, and I've always tried to base my game on his.

Quotes by Jack Rodwell

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

Quotes by Jack LaLanne

The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it...

Quotes by Jack Lew

Frequently Asked Questions

What different senses of "look" appear on this page?
The quotes use "look" in a few ways - looking directly at something to understand it, looking back on one's life without regret, and describing how situations can look similar across different contexts. For more general reflections in this everyday-word style, see Like quotes.
Is there a quote about having no regrets?
Yes: "I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now." For more reflections on life's path, see Life.
Does this page include any perspective on filmmaking?
Yes: "You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates" makes a direct statement about how film should be watched and understood.
Is there anything here about children or education?
One quote touches on how children facing poverty attend schools not designed to meet their needs, noting that marginalized children's circumstances can look alike across different countries. For more uplifting reflections along these lines, see Good.
Is there a quote about writing or editing here?
Yes, one describes the habit of rewriting books multiple times before submitting them, and taking another look after an editor's feedback, with the reminder to keep on trying. For more first-person reflections, see Me quotes.

Pair these with our Good quotes for a more upbeat perspective, or Like quotes on personal taste and preference.