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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 at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It is almost an irritation of feeling: 'Well, you never got it right. Now you have another chance. Maybe...

Quotes by Derek Walcott

The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look back, that is phenomenal encouragement.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?

Quotes by Derren Brown

Sexuality is often tied in with something you feel you lack in yourself and look for in others.

Quotes by Derren Brown

I actually met Adrian Peterson in high school. I look up to AP a lot. He's a great running back and we all know what he can do. That's definitely someone you want to model yourself after, especially at the...

Quotes by Derrick Henry

There are a lot of kids who look up to me, and I want to do well.

Quotes by Derrick Henry

I look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can't do that. I have a strike on my back. I can't...

Quotes by Derrick Lewis

The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to - try to - look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I...

Quotes by Derrick Rose

In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out of Englewood. Other than him, I really didn't have anyone else to look up to that was from...

Quotes by Derrick Rose

I try to wear a watch all the time, because I think guys get the short end of the stick when it comes to jewelry and accessories. A watch is a very chic men's item, and you're sort of wasting...

Quotes by Derek Blasberg

Turning the heat up on the red carpet while still looking like a lady isn't as easy as it sounds. Too much va-va-voom, and a girl can look like she just stepped out of 'Jersey Shore.' Too little, and she'll...

Quotes by Derek Blasberg

Whether I'm doing a routine where I want to move people, or if I want to feel moved myself, I definitely tap into those moments where it's not just dancing or movement. It might just be a hand gesture or...

Quotes by Derek Hough

You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.

Quotes by Derek Jeter

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

Quotes by Derek Luke

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

Quotes by Derek Magyar

Now some are saying maybe $1.6 trillion in is not enough maybe we should look at $2 trillion.

Quotes by Dennis Moore

As you begin to create more destinations, that will naturally create a stronger economic pipeline for space. And just as we have been the leader of commercial air travel for the first century, as we look to the second century...

Quotes by Dennis Muilenburg

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff...

Quotes by Dennis Muren

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things...

Quotes by Dennis Muren

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.