Quotes About Looking At The World

#1. Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.

George R R Martin

#2. We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Dean Koontz

#3. I think that in general
well, at least it's true for me
you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any character, you understand. But you've got your own way of looking at the world, and that naturally will affect how you craft a story.

Sam Lake

#4. Love is the enjoyment one experiences by looking at the world through the eyes of another.

James Rozoff

#5. Children are always looking at the world as if it was for the first time in their lives. So, we should always look to the world with the eyes of a child. I am not saying be naive, I am saying be innocent in the sense of discovering things.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

Calvin Trillin

#8. I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other architects because I think they have a way of looking at the world that is really important,

Tom Kundig

#9. We are so used to looking at the world from the point of view of living things that we cannot understand what it means not to be alive, and yet most of the time the world had nothing alive on it. And in most places in the universe today there probably is nothing alive.

Richard Feynman

#10. I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

Geraldine Brooks

#11. A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Edward De Bono

#12. One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

Steven Strogatz

#13. define Ignatian spirituality in a few words, you could say that it is: Finding God in all things Becoming a contemplative in action Looking at the world in an incarnational way Seeking freedom and detachment

James Martin

#14. Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

Thomas McGuane

#15. Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

Frederick Franck

#16. Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

W.S. Merwin

#17. People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.

Mario Van Peebles

#18. Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

George Orwell

#19. There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.

Wolfgang Tillmans

#20. The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does.

Brennan Manning

#21. I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

Martin Parr

#22. Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

Alister E. McGrath

#23. Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#24. La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.

Audrey Hepburn

#25. I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

Gloria Steinem

#26. We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#27. You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

Robert Ballard

#28. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two ... But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look thorough your heart, instead

Elizabeth Gilbert

#29. There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

Terry Pratchett

#30. Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don't know why.

Scott Adams

#31. We sometimes cannot conceive of how the new paradigm could be true or see the reasons to reject an old paradigm until we have started looking at the world through the lens of the new paradigm.

Angus J.L. Menuge

#32. A willingness to go against the conventional wisdom was one of the side effects of looking at the world in a particular light.

Kem Nunn

#33. You must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#34. I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

Robert Winston

#35. Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Ronald Steel

#36. Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element is present in all art. It is the key to even standing up and saying, "Hey, listen to me." Self-expression can be based on looking at the world and making observations about it.

George Carlin

#37. A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

Edward De Bono

#38. Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

Bruce Jackson

#39. When you can release on your ego long enough to view your perceptions as incomplete or misleading, it gives you the freedom to imagine new and potentially more useful ways of looking at the world.

Scott Adams

#40. I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

Kris Kristofferson

#41. Certainly in terms of technology, it's made a tremendous impact, but medicine is still within the realm of what we might call "objective" science. It's still part of the objective way of looking at the world.

Fred Alan Wolf

#42. It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops - for a split second.

David Hockney

#43. I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.

Assata Shakur

#44. There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning.

Joyce Maynard

#45. If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really
to keep looking at the world in the right way.

John Cusack

#46. I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

Nuala O'Faolain

#47. Name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world.

Laila Lalami

#48. When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

Bob Newhart

#49. A person never reads an outstanding book twice and walks away with the same beliefs. An outstanding book always surprises you and awakens you to new ideas, new ways of looking at the world, no matter how many times the words have been read.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#50. When he was alive, you shared a great affinity. A love of writing, books, Shakespeare, journalism, a certain way of looking at the world," Marla says. "You must have felt very validated by him, understood for who you were. Your incredible connection to him was very empowering.

Donna Jackson Nakazawa

#51. It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities.
Mr Bill Berkowitz

A. J. Jacobs

#52. Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.

Louise Brown

#53. As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.

Mike Mills

#54. I will never listen to ocean waves or view a beautiful sunset in quite the same way again. That is perhaps the greatest gift one can gain by delving into calculus: It is a whole new way of looking at the world, accessible only through the realm of mathematics.

Jennifer Ouellette

#55. I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world.

Russ Roberts

#56. I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

Lawrence Block

#57. The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.

John Wozniak

#58. It doesn't take long in marriage bedore you realize that your spouse doesn't share your instincts. At that point, either you worship God as sovereign and celebrate the different way of looking at the world that your spouse has blessed you with, or you dishonor him by trying to rewrite his story.

Paul David Tripp

#59. Those people who are scared of science or are a bit dismissive of science tend to not really understand what science really is, which is the most beautiful, most elegant and most creative way of looking at the world.

Dallas Campbell

#60. A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

Laila Lalami

#61. It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.

Simon Armitage

#62. On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

Yochai Benkler

#63. I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.

Laurel Nakadate

#64. Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Michael Bloomberg

#65. Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

Robin Ince

#66. He told me that soul mates come into our lives at very precise times to inspire and to awaken us to bigger and better ways of looking at the world and interacting with it. We've known each other before, he said, and we will know each other again.

Kate McGahan

#67. Science is a way of looking at the world without the rose-coloured glasses of ignorance!

Dr Steven Bottomley

#68. For an instant she hesitated. Baldanders said, 'You may trust him. The doctor has his own way of looking at the world, but he lies less than people believe.

Gene Wolfe

#69. What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

Chuck Grassley

#70. Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

Gary Hamel

#71. Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#72. My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?

Ani DiFranco

#73. In Kinvara, poor as we were, and unstable, we at least had family nearby, people who knew us. We shared traditions and a way of looking at the world. We didn't know until we left how much we took those things for granted.

Christina Baker Kline

#74. As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

Hilary Mantel

#75. I find some amusement at the idea of you as a child, of you reaching no higher than my waist, of you big-eyed, and your big head wobbly on your neck, looking at the world with curiosity if not comprehension, needing to wait years to know enough to know how little you know.

John Scalzi

#76. Every advancement in human history, every scientific discovery, every artistic masterpiece, every new idea has come from an individual looking at the world in a new way. Thinking outside the box. So tell me, Samantha, why are you trying so hard to put yourself inside the box?

Kate Scott

#77. You are looking at the world from your window, that's good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at your window from the world to see yourself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#78. I let myself get lost in the fantasies I created when I was looking at the world through my lens. Life was easier to ignore when I was busy pretending for other people.

Claire Contreras

#79. This passion for pictures gave him a whole new way of looking at the world. He began to pay constant attention to the curve of a branch or the swell of a woman's cheek.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#80. Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

Charlotte Bunch

#81. I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract ... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.

Ben Silbermann

#82. I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?

Kathryn Hahn

#83. It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

Adam Savage

#84. When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.

Jesse Jackson

#85. We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.

John Clute

#86. Here I am
Looking at the world's mirror
Finding myself
at the center of a maze
Constructing the roots of a dream
for a nationless society
by the power of peace

Rixa White

#87. When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.

Peter Diamandis

#88. In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

James Welch

#89. I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

Bob Newhart

#90. You should try smiling, yourself,' he had said with a sudden flash of spirit. 'Do you never tire of being displeased, Darcy? Upon my soul, I believe you take pleasure in finding fault and looking at the world with disdain.

Mary Street

#91. Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#92. I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.

Viggo Mortensen

#93. When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

George Steiner

#94. His cheekbones also gave his face a harsh character; but there was no harshness in the eyes which, looking at the world from under their tawny eyebrows, gave the impression of a man ever alert to greet a redeeming instinct in others but often disappointed.

James Joyce

#95. I want people to have a new way of looking at the world when they leave the theater.

Jenni Olson

#96. I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

John Berger

#97. My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

Robert Greene

#98. We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.

Haruki Murakami

#99. Looking closer at human beings, it becomes clear that each of us is a world of our own. Our forehead is a breezy meadow, our elbows are arid wastelands, our eyes are salty lakes, and our gut is the most amazing giant forest ever, populated by the weirdest of creatures.

Giulia Enders

#100. How different would your world be if you looked in the mirror and saw your best friend looking back at you?

Janet Dunnagan