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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.

For a longer nail look, I get a gel manicure. They grow with the gel polish, and then I keep going until I want my natural, short nails back with the regular polish.

Quotes by Edy Ganem

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

Quotes by Ehud Barak

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

Quotes by Ehud Olmert

One of the things I love about Helena Bonham Carter is that she is ravishing, but she does as much as she can to play it down and look funny. She doesn't let her looks get in the way. I...

Quotes by Eileen Atkins

Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.

Quotes by Edwin Catmull

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

Quotes by Edward Thorndike

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that...

Quotes by Edward Zwick

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is...

Quotes by Edward Zwick

The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile.

Quotes by Edward Zwick

I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.

Quotes by Edward Zwick

My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

Quotes by Edward Ruscha

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

Quotes by Edward Klein

I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it's almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the world moved at a very different pace, and information was very different.

Quotes by Edward Lampert

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

Quotes by Edward Everett Hale

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

Quotes by Edward Everett Hale

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

Quotes by Edward Forbes

People think I write weird, but there are people at Death Equinox that make me look like Danielle Steele.

Quotes by Edward Bryant

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

Quotes by Edward Burnett Tylor

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the...

Quotes by Edward Burns

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.

Quotes by Edward Burns

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.