Quotes About Looking Outside Yourself

#1. When TJ and I got to the bottom, we found Hope staring terrified at Molly. The dog had something long and horrible and meaty in her jaws. It took me a moment to register that it was a very fresh-looking human spine. Damn, she was hungry.

David Wong

#2. And do we also have, do we have ... a party of minor deities from the Halls of Asgard? Away to his right came a rumble of thunder. Lightning arced across the stage. A small group of hairy men with helmets sat looking very pleased with themselves, and raised their glasses to him.

Douglas Adams

#3. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

William Steig

#4. The designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people "look" at a lot of thing but never "see" anything. Looking is emotional; seeing is an intellectual process.

Albert Hadley

#5. Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone.

Laurel Nakadate

#6. To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

Mark Twain

#7. I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

Ralph Nader

#8. If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.

Justin Martyr

#9. What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

Theaster Gates

#10. In a voice that sounds the way a can of cheap dog food would sound if a can of cheap dog food could speak, he tells you you are looking well.

Tom Robbins

#11. If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.

Prashant Iyengar

#12. Don't be silly. People never stop looking for love.
Yeah, some of them don't even stop AFTER they've found it.

Teresa Medeiros

#13. Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.

Zoe Kazan

#14. I'm looking for the binding energy of a look
a crop of reflections to be reaped
in a winter of thorn
when icebergs of illusion will melt
to be served at high tea
and the spaces between the poles pinned down

Nancy Peters

#15. It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

Michael Korda

#16. The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her surprise, they all thought in chorus." - LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass

Connie Willis

#17. When you are looking for love, then
love is spreading its net to catch you.

Debasish Mridha

#18. I thought I would have a heart attack just looking at you.

Brenda Hodnett

#19. For millions on the outside looking in, this is where they want to live - America.

Mike Barnicle

#20. astonished-looking eyes.

Anton Chekhov

#21. You look different," Snorri said. "I think 'even more handsome' was the phrase you were looking for.

Mark Lawrence

#22. When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone.

Anusha Atukorala

#23. If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up.

Drake

#24. I definitely know that there's somebody looking out for me, because I could never do this alone.

Taylor Swift

#25. Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.

Alan McKay

#26. Some other brown stuff that might not be mud into her tangled hair. All around, villagers wandered with their baskets of brightly colored eggs, looking for the perfect hiding places. Ruth Zardo sat on the bench in the middle of the green tossing

Louise Penny

#27. One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

John Lasseter

#28. From the commotion, Franks figured it had to be pretty impressive-looking, but then again, if they weren't easily impressed, they wouldn't be cultists to begin with. "Hurry!

Larry Correia

#29. Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."

John F. Kerry

#30. I sit on it's edge, looking down at the man who feels like he just materialized out of nowhere. My head still swims with euphoria from the moment...a moment I was just in with one man whilst sleeping next to another. Suddenly feeling dirty, I pull the sheets wrapped in front of my body closer.

E.J. Mellow

#31. Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

Simon Pegg

#32. The sign outside the juice store had said CHANGE YOUR FUTURE WITH SUNSHINE IN A GLASS. My future was looking pretty great already, and I couldn't wait to see what would happen if I added orange juice to it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#33. Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#34. It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands.

Pepe Eliaschev

#35. The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.

Emily Bronte

#36. I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: 'South Park' - how do I get on that?' I just became friends with those guys first. They're nice guys.

Bill Hader

#37. I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.

Mickalene Thomas

#38. I've seen a lot of LA and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is looking to the outside for verification that what they're doing is all right.

Victoria Tennant

#39. For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds.

Michel Ocelot

#40. 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

#41. He slammed the door shut in Ian's face, the lock clicking into place. Ian hit it again with his fist before roaring, If I were a pervert, I'd be looking for something a damn bit more attractive than you, jackass. And definitely someone that smelled alive.

Rose Wynters

#42. A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

Warren Farrell

#43. We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

Steven Levy

#44. When I'm in the house of God, I don't wear my jewelry, if you're looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

Mr. T

#45. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

#46. Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.

Suzi Quatro

#47. Happiness is your inherent nature. In the hustle and bustle of life, you have forgotten a part of yourself, and looking for it outside. Fill this void with happiness that is sustainable, not transitory; that illuminates your life and that of others, that is life giving and so natural.

Sanchita Pandey

#48. Looking outside of yourself for a solution might sound easy, but most solutions you seek come from within.

Richard Morin

#49. You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

Ajahn Chah

#50. Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.

Debra Beck

#51. You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

Tonya Hurley

#52. Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are ... and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.

Mandy Hale

#53. I do all my work to escape myself. I don't believe in looking into yourself. If you do this, you just discover a lot of shit. I think what we should do is throw ourselves out of ourselves. The truth is not deep in ourselves. The truth is outside.

Slavoj Zizek

#54. With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

Amedeo Modigliani

#55. If you grow up between cultures, if you get accustomed to traveling, it's easy to find yourself always on the outside of things, looking in. This can be ideal for a writer - or a spy; you've always got, analytically, a ticket out.

Pico Iyer

#56. Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.

Queen Latifah

#57. A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

Ross Bleckner

#58. Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

Neel Mukherjee

#59. 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

#60. When you inhabit any of these three roles, you're reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You're always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.

David Emerald Womeldorff

#61. Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.

Rob Liano

#62. Quit looking for the answers outside of yourself.

Bryant McGill

#63. Stop looking for answers outside yourself. Don't ask God, BE GOD. You're the sculptor of your own reality - don't hand your tools to anyone else. Even the Big G!

Jeff Brown

#64. I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.

Albert Oehlen