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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.

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

Quotes by David Boreanaz

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

Quotes by David Brock

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

Quotes by David Attenborough

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing,...

Quotes by David Attenborough

When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

Quotes by David Baker

I still look at myself and want to improve.

Quotes by David Beckham

Always have something to look forward to.

Quotes by David Beckham

I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

Quotes by David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've...

Quotes by David Beckham

I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'

Quotes by David Beckham

We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have...

Quotes by David Belle

That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.

Quotes by David Bergen

I look at the progressive policies that have marginalized black dads. They push them to the side and say, 'You're not needed.' Uncle Sam is going to be the dad: he's going to provide for the kids; he's going to...

Quotes by David A. Clarke, Jr.

I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked strange, and I was always like, 'Look away! Ignore it, ignore the boobs in the room, move along, nothing...

Quotes by David Alan Basche

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

Quotes by David Alan Grier

I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here.

Quotes by David Alan Grier

As we get better at reversing aging it will be possible to take one medicine and within weeks feel and even look younger. Imagine going to a doctor to get a pill for diabetes, and this same medicine will prevent...

Quotes by David Andrew Sinclair

It surprises me that more people don't take a look in the mirror a little more often and assess their own relationships.

Quotes by Dave Pirner

Our readers get what we do, and I don't think about what it's going to look like to the outside world. I don't really care.

Quotes by Dave Portnoy

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

Quotes by Dave Van Ronk

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.