Looking Foolish Quotes

#1. The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

Josh Linkner

#2. I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

Ethan Hawke

#3. I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

Danny Boyle

#4. I no longer have to be afraid of looking foolish, or wonder what people might think about me, as long as I please the One who conquered death.

Sarah Holman

#5. All my life, I should not have worried so much about looking foolish; I see that now. Signs matter. And all waves are dangerous, especially the ones you refuse to see coming.

Suzanne Finnamore

#6. Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

Sue Grafton

#7. Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said.
Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.

Christopher Paolini

#8. You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

Dean Koontz

#9. Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself: What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake, feeling rejected, looking foolish, or being alone? I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer you've been searching for comes into focus.

Oprah Winfrey

#10. Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

John Updike

#11. Nothing wrong with looking like a fool if what you are doing is far from foolish.

Paulo Coelho

#12. Brilliant, inspiring ... if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!

Jennifer Lacy

#13. The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

Paul Mooney

#14. I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.

Oscar Wilde

#15. I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.

Andy Serkis

#16. Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.

Jane Yolen

#17. Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency'.

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?

Debasish Mridha

#19. A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book.
"That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me.

Amanda Hocking

#20. Chewbacca's back home, looking for his family. Luke's searching the galaxy for old Jedi teachings. Han Solo's got nothing to smuggle, nowhere to gamble, no foolish Rebellion to fight for. He's like the Falcon: retired to a hangar somewhere, waiting for something, anything, to happen.

Chuck Wendig

#21. Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I've looked for but nothing that I need? That's because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. My angel of vengeance, I answered, and she blinked.

Kristen Ashley

#23. A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that's me.

Harivanshrai Bachchan

#24. To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.

Robert Silverberg

#25. New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Wallace Stevens

#26. I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Yann Martel

#27. I'm so thirsty I could inhale a waterfall.

Tahereh Mafi

#28. Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only to speak plainly, even though you may look foolish. This is a thousand times better than looking good and talking nonsense.

David Small

#29. Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

Andy Serkis

#30. Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

Arthur Helps

#31. I've done this a thousand times before, watching the crowd like a wolf does a flock of sheep. Looking for the weak, the slow, the foolish. Only now, I am very much the prey.

Victoria Aveyard

#32. Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was . I wanted to please Him in my relationships even if it meant looking radical and foolish to other people - even if it meant kissing dating goodbye.

Joshua Harris

#33. In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Criss Jami

#34. Do not rush the taper. Don't get brave. Brave is often foolish and looking for that instant gratification of instant "clean." It won't work.

Taite Adams

#35. He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#36. This letter has gotten foolish, and I think you know how I detest looking like a fool. But still I do. For you.

Kiera Cass

#37. In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants.

Daniel H. Wilson

#38. A kiss must end for another to begin, and it did, and did again.

Laini Taylor

#39. Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.

Liza Minnelli

#40. If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Green Day