Hard Look Quotes

#1. I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Alan Ball

#2. Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

Doug Liman

#3. Nadira gave Kate a long hard look. "Mr. Slater has the ship. Mr. Cruse has the coordinates. I have the key. What exactly do you have?"
For the first time Kate looked flustered.

Kenneth Oppel

#4. I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Richard Powers

#5. The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fallible egos and blind fantasies of men.

Jeff Shaara

#6. Before we can jump into projects and how they will help you, we need to be straight up with ourselves. Be prepared to take a hard look in the mirror. We need to

Mark Sieverkropp

#7. I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you've got coming.

Ted Cruz

#8. You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

Jon Stewart

#9. The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

David Eddings

#10. Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history

Owl City

#11. If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

Jeff Tweedy

#12. Captain gives her a hard look. "You know what shit is? Killing three innocent people. Think your life is bad now, try living with that." Her voice is harsh.

Lisa McMann

#13. No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

John W. Campbell

#14. At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#15. We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

Lauren Myracle

#16. I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science fiction books. "There's a thin layer of nerd all over everything." said Jace.
"Thanks. I appreciate that." Simon gave Jace a hard look.

Cassandra Clare

#17. She gave me a hard look. "No one likes a wiseass, Harry."
"Are you kidding? As long as the wiseass is talking to someone else, people love 'em.

Jim Butcher

#18. God went down to get your badge since you were in the cave so long." Ruxs smirked. "You guys kiss and make up?" Steele swiveled around and leveled a hard look at him and replied with a clipped, "Yep." Before

A.E. Via

#19. Barrons cut her a hard look. "Some of us are more useful and important than others."
"My ass, you are," Christian growled.
Barrons folded his arms. "Who let the Unseelie in here?

Karen Marie Moning

#20. If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

Ed Rendell

#21. Deb shoots Deano a hard look and grits her teeth so hard she snaps the end of her cigar which flies out the window.
Mac orders, "Deb, stop!"
Deb says, "It's just a scratch. I'll worry about it later.

David McKoy

#22. Okay, you need to eat something. Before we do anything else, you have to eat."
"I just did."
I gave him a hard look, but his face was entirely innocent. He was fucking with me, right? He had to be. "Man cannot live by pussy alone," I said.

Ava Lore

#23. When you realize you would consider not having a child just so you could take an occasional snooze and be available to see Batman Retires the same weekend it comes out, you have to take a good hard look at yourself and acknowledge, I am a shallow, shallow person.

Paul Reiser

#24. It requires a hard look at what is, rather than what you hope will be. As you let go of managing and controlling, you must also let go of the idea that "when he changes I'll be happy." He may never change. You must stop trying to make him. And you must learn to be happy anyway.

Robin Norwood

#25. I've addressed this before, and I'll say it again: The league has to take a long, hard look at full-time officials. The officiating has been inconsistent all season long.

Ron Jaworski

#26. Let's use our heads," he said, giving Shame a hard look.
Shame just grinned. "That's my favorite thing to use.

Devon Monk

#27. What did the lawyer say?" I couldn't stop the little snicker that slipped out as I sat back up in the seat and laced my fingers behind my head.
"Before or after I kissed her?"
"Zeb!" My mom gave me a hard look and my sister just shook her head.

Jay Crownover

#28. Take a good hard look in the mirror, and remember yourself as you are today, cause as time changes, so does the scenery.

Robert M. Hensel

#29. If you take a hard look at the people in your life, you may be blown away by how many explorers and survivalists surround you. Everyday, I'm amazed by the number of people I meet, who have climbed Mt. Everest, time and time again ...
without ever having been to the Himalayas.

Jose N. Harris

#30. What if you're chicken? What if you're more chicken than chicken soup?" Malloy said.
Kit gave him a long, hard look. "Then you pretend you're not. You pretend so hard it comes true.

Tania Unsworth

#31. Throughout my trading career, I have continually witnessed examples of other people that I have known being ruined by a failure to respect risk. If you don't take a hard look at risk, it will take you.

Larry Hite

#32. Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Anthony Weiner

#33. Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#34. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.

Lauren Myracle

#35. Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor need not watch his companies' performance like a hawk; but he should give it a good, hard look from time to time.

Benjamin Graham

#36. Take a hard look at those things, which we needlessly turn into burdens, when they were meant to be blessings.

Elaine A. Cannon

#37. Understanding where you come from means taking a good hard look at your past and giving yourself the freedom to learn from it.

Debra Fileta

#38. that was reality, and when all of this was untangled she would have to sit down and have a good hard look at that fact.

Elizabeth Bonesteel

#39. She had the same hard look in her eyes, as if she'd been used for the past two thousand years and was getting tired of it.

Rick Riordan

#40. If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you're consistent, you will succeed.

John Lewis

#41. Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.

Conrad Burns

#42. I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular.

Donna Dixon

#43. I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

John Green

#44. If you can look at somebody and say, 'I never loved you, you were a mistake,' that's one thing. But if you look at him and say, 'You were everything and I poisoned it because I wouldn't stand up for myself,' that's hard. That's too hard ...

Jennifer Crusie

#45. There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

Liz Murray

#46. Don't you wonder sometimes why so much gets heaped on certain people?" I almost told the truth. That truth being, "I wouldn't dare." I wouldn't dare dwell on a thing like that. I try to look forward in my life. Because what's behind me is a little hard to take.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#47. It's hard to describe yourself as a hero - I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.

Steve Wilkos

#48. To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

#49. It's hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won't be able to. So I spend all my time at school thinking about her, wishing I could see her right then, but when I get to her house, I don't know what to say.

Nicholas Sparks

#50. Look at it this way: if winning wasn't so hard, it wouldn't feel so good.

Mike Richter

#51. I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.

Sam Huntington

#52. Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

Katy Perry

#53. When we go to different areas and look at doing period pieces and movies shot in other states and locations, even overseas, it's hard to carry 1700 volunteers from your church with you to do that. And so, we knew that there were going to be growing pains at some point.

Alex Kendrick

#54. I try very hard to keep my eyes open so that I can look at my beloved.

Shan Sa

#55. Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she's not the best singer in the world, but she's got where she has through hard work.

Rick Astley

#56. You can't look prim and righteous wearing a microscopic miniskirt and mile-high heels. Well it's pretty hard, anyway.

Meg Cabot

#57. I believe the stars are the headlights of angels driving from heaven to save us
to save us ... Won't you look at the sky?
They're driving from heaven into our eyes. And though final words are so hard to devise, I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes.

David Berman

#58. You don't look very hard for things you don't believe will or can happen.

James Dashner

#59. It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.

Gwendoline Christie

#60. I think it's cool that people kind of look at me as one of the originators of online video and one of the pioneers of YouTube because I've worked really hard to build an audience and make content that I'm proud of.

Shane Dawson

#61. The resilience and the resourcefulness of people to make a better life, to survive, to give their children something better than they had, is so inspiring. I look at how hard it must be to get up every day and fight that battle and I think, Wow, anything I'm doing just has to be in service.

Kathy Calvin

#62. Designing is so easy - it's the business that is hard. That's why you really have to respect Ralph Lauren - look at what he's done. Anybody who can sustain themselves should be applauded.

Thom Browne

#63. It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

Becky G

#64. He bent down so I could hear him over the music. "What are you doing here?" he asked with a hard tone.

Okay. Not the best first line. Something like, you look beautiful, have my babies would have been a little bit better.

R.S. Grey

#65. I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.

Mike Tyson

#66. No matter how hard life gets, there's always goodness right around the corner. All you have to do is look for it.

Amy Matayo

#67. When you look hard enough and long enough at your own face, everything about it starts to seem hideous.

Jessica Valenti

#68. It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#69. I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings to life - are hard illusions to shake off. Look at me, a war correspondent.

Michael Hastings

#70. A friend is like a good bra: hard to find, comfortable, supportive, always lifts you up, makes you look better, never lets you down or leaves you hanging, and always close to your heart.

Jasinda Wilder

#71. I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonna's eyebrows. I think it's beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.

Natalia Kills

#72. If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

Nick Cave

#73. Jacey, you try and see the good in everyone. That's your mistake. You think that if you look hard enough, you'll find it, that everyone has something in them that deserves you. But that's so fucking wrong. Very few people deserve you. And that includes me.

Courtney Cole

#74. He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be.

Rainbow Rowell

#75. Look," she told me. "A good kreda is very hard to find. I invested a lot of time and memory in you. I had no intention of giving all that up, just because you were going to be in a bad mood for a decade or two.

C.S. Friedman

#76. The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

John Lennon

#77. It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

Jonathan Ames

#78. Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.

Craig Brown

#79. But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.

Isaac Marion

#80. Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#81. I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

Paul Haggis

#82. If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

Muriel Rukeyser

#83. Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.

Julianna Baggott

#84. No more hard work than look beautiful with eight in the morning until midnight.

Brigitte Bardot

#85. All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

Margaret Atwood

#86. Her boyfriend can't hold a candle to me. Especially not while I'm holding the strobe light. It's hard to do modern dancing when you're living like it's 1882. Still, I make it look pretty easy.

Jarod Kintz

#87. I'm 53, and it's hard to get to the gym every day. If I know on Friday I'm going to be wrestling, then I don't want to look bad, so it gives me motivation. Plus, once you're in motion, it's a lot easier to stay in motion.

Kevin Nash

#88. I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that.

Gwen Stefani

#89. It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.

Thom Yorke

#90. The humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show them how we feel.

John Green

#91. The truth was, she found it hard to look at the man. It was like gazing at the sun.

Catherine LaRoche

#92. You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions.

George Patterson

#93. I look at camping the same way I look at horror movies. All the years that humans fought to get into caves and into shelters - it almost seems sacrilegious to go outside and sleep without a roof. We work so hard to have these things!

Chuck Klosterman

#94. I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that ... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

Aarti Sequeira

#95. What are you doing here?" I asked. I was breathless, not certain any longer if it was my nearly plummeting to my death or his nearness that was making it so hard to draw in air.
"Protecting you. What does it look like I'm doing?

Jocelyn Davies

#96. You find them in any Kingdom," she said, "if you look hard enough. Young men, and young women, too, who believe that they are in love with evil, death, and darkness, but in fact, are in love with mystery.

Mercedes Lackey

#97. I would not want to be a mobile home repo man. Those would be hard to sneak away - "Knock knock - Hi, would you go cut your grass and look that way for a half an hour?"

Mitch Hedberg

#98. Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

Betty Smith

#99. She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but she had taught him what no Greek mother ever taught a son: the basic humdrum skills required for independence.

Alison Fell

#100. Especially with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, I can't tell necessarily the nitty gritty of what you're really up to. I'm just seeing the performance of all the work you're doing and the look you're giving; it's very hard to get to the center. It's very hard to see what's what.

Casey Wilson