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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.

When I made the UFC, everyone said, 'You need to go overseas.' I thought I had to go as well, and I went to Tristar Gym, and I was there for one or two years. But changes were needed. I'd...

Quotes by Robert Whittaker

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

Quotes by Robert Teeter

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

Quotes by Robert Smith

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

Quotes by Robert Stack

And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same...

Quotes by Robert Sternberg

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

Quotes by Robert Sternberg

If you're a gazelle, you don't have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It's not until you get to primates that...

Quotes by Robert Sapolsky

I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch, and he didn't allow his campaign aides to cut it off.

Quotes by Robert Scheer

You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the...

Quotes by Robert Scoble

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

Quotes by Robert Sheckley

Above all else, look around to employ the best talent you possibly can.

Quotes by Robert Rinder

I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don't seem to have had anything done.

Quotes by Robert Rinder

I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production...

Quotes by Robert Rodriguez

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Quotes by Robert Rodriguez

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

Quotes by Robert Pozen

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to...

Quotes by Robert Preston

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Quotes by Robert Orben

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Quotes by Robert Orben

The physical evidence does not change because of public pressure or personal agenda. Physical evidence does not look away as events unfold nor does it blackout or add to memory. It remains constant and is a solid foundation upon which...

Quotes by Robert P. McCulloch

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were...

Quotes by Robert Mueller

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.