Top 100 Look At The World Quotes
#1. Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
Wislawa Szymborska
#2. I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
Tom Bissell
#3. When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Carl Rogers
#4. My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.
Cynthia Kadohata
#5. People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.
Pete Hamill
#6. I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.
Miriam Toews
#7. Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.
Graham Elliot
#8. Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.
Mark Twain
#9. Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
Jeff Bridges
#10. When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#11. Life is magical if you are a child at heart and look at the world with wonder and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#12. As long as we look at the world through the eyes of self-interest and self-defense we will never see the world as God sees it. Contemplation
Brian Zahnd
#13. When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.
Marvin Gaye
#14. If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our own minds. We can look at the world with fresh eyes and hear things with fresh ears.
Pema Chodron
#15. A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.'
Julia Glass
#16. Look at the world through your vision not through the misperceptions of others.
Debasish Mridha
#17. When asked the secret of how to look at the world afresh, with delighted eyes, Merlin said, You lack innocence. Having labeled a thing, you no longer see that thing, you see its label instead.
Deepak Chopra
#18. Photography has shaped the way I look at the world; it has taught me to look beyond myself and capture the world outside.
Lynsey Addario
#19. Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.
William Baziotes
#20. I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.
Neil Jackson
#21. We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things.
Donald Trump
#22. If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.
Adyashanti
#23. We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.
Eknath Easwaran
#24. Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at ... Maybe another angle is needed sometimes. When we're burned out from writing, we can photograph or draw, look at the world in a different way, and photographers could try writing what they see.
Barbara Abercrombie
#25. If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.
Marianne Williamson
#26. Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.
Jim Rohn
#27. We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
Freeman Dyson
#28. True philosophy consists in relearning to look at the world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Simon Critchley
#29. What you believe really does affect how you live, how you look at God, how you look at the world around you, how you look at yourself, and how you feel about reality. What you believe is vital for your whole worldview, your self-identity, and your understanding of your mission.
James T. Bradford
#31. There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.
David Gerrold
#32. Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you.
Javier Sierra
#33. There'sthemeat eaters and there'sus. And that'stheway I look at the world.
Chrissie Hynde
#34. I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'
Tony Fadell
#35. It's hard for me to listen to any actors whine or moan about anything acting-related because look at the world. We really have nothing to complain about. Just to be working is a blessing.
Dan Byrd
#36. I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.
George Meyer
#37. If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.
Ann Patchett
#38. Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.
Simon Critchley
#39. Just look at the world around you, right here on the ocean floor. Such wonderful things surround you. What else are you looking for? Its all under the sea
SebastiAn
#40. Look at the world around you & imagine it in a better way.
Jason Kilar
#41. Things happen; people have different experiences that change the way they look at the world. Sometimes you just have to accept that there's nothing you can do. Sometimes friendships just naturally come to an end.' Radu
Lisa Hall
#42. But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes ... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.
Colin Farrell
#43. I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
Aleksandr Kuprin
#44. If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.
Corrie Ten Boom
#45. Because here's the thing: seeing yourself through another's eyes shifts your center of gravity. It doesn't change the way you look at yourself. It changes the way you look at the world. Not the you. The everything-but-you.
Rick Yancey
#46. Look at the world with the vision of peace, love, and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.
Sathya Sai Baba
#47. I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact.
Christopher Lee
#48. I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.
Ryan Gosling
#49. We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
Louise Gluck
#50. We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.
Pico Iyer
#51. I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?
John Banville
#52. I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.
Nicolas Cage
#53. If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus .
Randall Jarrell
#54. People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just.
Tony Robbins
#55. If we look at the world with a deluded body and mind, we will think that our self is permanent. But if we practice correctly and return to our true self, we will realize that nothing is permanent
Dogen
#56. We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect ... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs ... if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
Aaron Siskind
#57. Always look at the people, not at the mass. A face, not the crowd. Look at the world, not at the ground. Every little detail you see is a victory.
Vic James
#58. You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
Frederik Pohl
#59. Move forward. Keep drawing myself. I will look at the world in the eyes and run forward.
Minzy
#60. It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.
John Keegan
#61. I look at the world and my own life as if I were a stranger. I wish for nothing, except perhaps that time would stop.
Amin Maalouf
#62. The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
Anthony Minghella
#63. The world of a cat is unlike any other. What is seen through their eyes cannot be understood by anyone besides another cat. Their world is filled with secrets and adventures that are always present and forever changing. To look at the world as a cat is to look through the veil of reality.
Alex G. Zarate
#64. You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!
Roger Bacon
#66. They [my eyes] immediately started to tear up, tears being your eyes' way of forbidding you to look away,of forcing you to look at the world you've made or unmade.
Brock Clarke
#67. I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.
Amandla Stenberg
#68. Clear, crisp, and compelling ... Mitzvah Girls is a thoughtful look at the world of Jewish girls who grow up in 21st-century America, but don't really.
David Wolpe
#69. by 1900, the tribes owned less than 2 percent of the land they once possessed. Entire languages had already disappeared - more than a loss of words, a loss of a way to look at the world.
Timothy Egan
#70. The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.
James Rebhorn
#71. People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.
Dallas Campbell
#72. When I look at the world, I recognize that unfortunately, it sometimes takes an atrocity like 9/11 to force us to come together.
Ving Rhames
#73. What is meant here is that man should not become immersed in loving the world which will make him forget the responsibilities that Allah had ordered him to hold, but he has to look at the world in its reality, in which it represents a place for obeying Allah.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#74. Ignoring expectations makes you look at the world in a fresh way.
K. K. Barrett
#75. [ ... ] when you look at the world, you put on the goggles of custom, habit and tribal wisdom lest the truth make you insane [ ... ] you see the world reflected in your own image; you see yourself reflected to the image of the world [ ... ]
David Zindell
#76. When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.
Gavin Hood
#77. I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives.
Mira Nair
#78. The fact was that belief in them had to be there before they themselves could be there; if one did not look at the world with the world's eyes, the world already in one's own gaze, it fell apart into meaningless details that live as sadly far apart from each other as the stars in the night-sky.
Robert Musil
#79. I Shall Look At The World Through Tears. Perhaps I Shall See Things That, Dry-Eyed, I Could Not See
Nicholas Wolterstorff
#80. Twoflower didn't just look at the world through rose-tinted spectacles, Rincewind knew
he looked at it through a rose-tinted brain, too, and heard it through rose-tinted ears.
Terry Pratchett
#81. That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.
Joseph Kosuth
#82. I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
Vivienne Westwood
#83. If you look at the world today, there are as many solutions as there are problems. I think that is a big part of creativity. That's why I started Urban Zen. Because I wanted to dress and address people.
Donna Karan
#84. The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
Red Auerbach
#85. It is better not to call anything to anybody - just remain centered in yourself. Look at the world and drop judgments, and you will have such a pure atmosphere around you - no appreciation, no condemnation, just a pure watchfulness. This watchfulness, I call meditation.
Rajneesh
#87. Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.
Pablo
#88. I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.
Michael Strahan
#89. In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time: with interest, enthusiasm, and engagement. This may be the optimal state of mind for a healthy brain.
Louis Cozolino
#90. I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.
Anne Frank
#91. If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.
Barack Obama
#92. People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.
Chuck Klosterman
#93. We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual interest and also in line with, you know, what the whole world needs, because this is a world where we really have to all work together.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#94. The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything
Lemony Snicket
#95. Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically,
Nate Silver
#96. Because, you see, the cruel gods are stronger than the kind gods, and they will always beat them in the end. You doubt it? Look at the world, my brother, my sister. And so the spirit of Roth is here with me also, and battles for my soul. And I don't know who will win.
Anthony McGowan
#97. There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.
Wesley Morris
#98. I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.
Colum McCann
#99. Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom said, If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest.
Rick Warren
#100. I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.
Elizabeth Peyton
