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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.

In my 20s, it was easy. In your 40s, it's a lot more challenging. You have to look at it like you're an actor, but you're also a professional athlete. You have to train.

Quotes by Daniel Wu

I went to Hong Kong in '97 to witness the handover after graduating university, and then I was gonna backpack around Asia and then come back here and look for a job.

Quotes by Daniel Wu

You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.

Quotes by Daniel Wu

When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.

Quotes by Daniela Pestova

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

Quotes by Daniel Pipes

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you,...

Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.

Quotes by Daniel Levitin

Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held,...

Quotes by Daniel Libeskind

HubSpot's offices occupy several floors of a 19th-century furniture factory that has been transformed into the cliche of what the home of a tech startup should look like: exposed beams, frosted glass, a big atrium, modern art hanging in the...

Quotes by Daniel Lyons

GE rolled out a popular TV ad campaign in 2015 explaining why youthful techies should give the 'digital industrial' giant a second look.

Quotes by Daniel Lyons

Conventional companies try to find new uses for capabilities they already have. Transformers look at what the market needs and then go build it, hiring new people and/or taking people off other jobs.

Quotes by Daniel Lyons

Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'

Quotes by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines...

Quotes by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse...

Quotes by Daniel Goldstein

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Quotes by Daniel Goleman

We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual...

Quotes by Daniel H. Pink

Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at...

Quotes by Daniel H. Pink

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.