See What Quotes

#1. See what you want, Aelin, and seize it. Don't ask for it; don't wish for it. Take it.

Sarah J. Maas

#2. Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#3. In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.

Pattiann Rogers

#4. We are all dangling in mid-process between what already happened (which is just a memory) and what might happen (which is just an idea). Now is the only time anything happens. When we are awake in our lives, we know what's happening. When we're asleep, we don't see what's right in front of us.

Sylvia Boorstein

#5. The colonel looks eager, but Cal could not seem more reluctant. He keeps still, knowing that any twitch might betray his true feelings. The lack of movement is just as damning. "I'll see what I can come up with," he finally forces out.

Victoria Aveyard

#6. There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

Anne Lamott

#7. To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That's the first elf rule. You can't see something you don't believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.

Matt Haig

#8. And though you understand the pecking order and respect the judge - and even if the judge says "Great argument, Counselor Kaling, the court concurs" - you also just want to not have to plead your case all the time. I wanted to be the judge, jury, and executive producer. (See what I did there?)

Mindy Kaling

#9. Take care of him, her father had charged her. She had thought - until he wakes. But she began to see what her father had trusted to her, and how very much Sasha needed someone he could trust-
Someone as brave as her father, someone not afraid of him - no matter what.

C.J. Cherryh

#10. I'd rather see what young people are going through than see things explode.

Amy Heckerling

#11. Daemon!" Dee called from the kitchen. "I need your help!"
"We should go see what she's doing before she destroys your kitchen." He rubbed his hands down his face. "It's possible.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. My dear Prince, might I beg you to move a little more that way, for your nose casts such a shadow that I really cannot see what I have on my plate

Andrew Lang

#13. I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.

Ester Dean

#14. We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

John Berger

#15. When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

Lily Collins

#16. I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.

Candace Bushnell

#17. Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair ... Change my name, just see what happens.

Larry David

#18. We haven't even gotten a start date but we'll see what happens with that and that will be fun. I've gotten a couple of other things but I'm not really committing myself to anything yet.

Nia Long

#19. Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

John Shelton Reed

#20. When your children grow, when your dark locks begin to silver, when you are an old woman, alone with your three bears, what will you see? What stories will you tell?

Neil Gaiman

#21. Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

Mayim Bialik

#22. Most people who perpetrate evil do not see what they are doing as evil. Evil exists primarily in the eye of the beholder, especially in the eye of the victim.

Roy F. Baumeister

#23. Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

Nick Hornby

#24. If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

Travis Bradberry

#25. But I could never see what was so awful and wrong about being honest. And I didn't think it had anything to do with being an only child. I believed it had more to do with the fact that I had an inherently low bullshit tolerance, and what the hell is wrong with that?

Josie Bloss

#26. People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the world, but it's not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet.

Ty Segall

#27. Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.

Gerard Swope

#28. I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing with and know it's fake. As soon as I watch it on TV, though, my brain registers it as 'Everything's real!'

Chelan Simmons

#29. Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

Terry Pratchett

#30. But time's too short to enjoy the moment. Shall we live in the future to allow ourselves to see what the world has to offer? To throw away the chances of now and disregared pain until yesterday?

Matt

#31. And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?

Robert Southey

#32. I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.

John Zorn

#33. Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.

Win Butler

#34. Pain exists only in the mind. Whether an event is real or not doesn't matter, only that the mind believes it is. Suffering can be suspended by achieving new beliefs and perspectives. We see what we want to see, and feel what we want to feel. Never doubt that the life you lead is the life you want.

Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

#35. The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.

Mavis Staples

#36. Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

Lord Byron

#37. The past is a shadow, so I hid in the darkness. Little did I know I had made myself the unsuspecting prey of unseen predator. For only in light can you see what is dark.

Dina Luate-Wani

#38. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them
in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
[From the preface.]

Kurt Vonnegut

#39. See what I mean? Your confidence is so strong it's obnoxious.

Stacy Kramer

#40. Only those who go where few have gone can see what few have seen.

Gautama Buddha

#41. When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.

Bonnie Tyler

#42. You only see what you want to see

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#43. If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

Rosalynn Carter

#44. Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.

Bill Gates

#45. In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

G. Willow Wilson

#46. We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens.

Michael A. Singer

#47. Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.

Clarence Thomas

#48. Just start the sentence ... and see what happens. This is how we write.

Jincy Willett

#49. In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.

Michael Koryta

#50. You launch a site, and you see what works, and you continue to make it better.

Chad Hurley

#51. Race for the pschological advantage. Sit up tall, pull in high, stay within the margins of power, and they will inevitably look over at some point to see what kind of God is blasting your boat forward.

Christopher Allsopp

#52. I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.

John Darnielle

#53. One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.

T. Colin Campbell

#54. Sometimes I want to watch movies both to see what to do and what not to do also.

Etan Cohen

#55. When you live around a working-class environment, you see what sports means to people. You see that it's the escape over the weekend. you see how they build their lives around it. People sort of want to get away from their lives.

Joe Posnanski

#56. The problem was that the only reality he could see what a nut-brown nymph who could whisper like a song and move like a river of honey.

Frank Lee

#57. I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.

Patrick Kane

#58. As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you

Wendy Mass

#59. When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.

Michael Douglas

#60. All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it.

Mark McGrath

#61. Together we shall see what is in this great kingdom of Denmark, and on this journey you will put from you all the sufferings of recent years and regain your joy in the world.

Rose Tremain

#62. My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.

George Rogers Clark

#63. We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#64. He just wanted to see it. From afar. To see what might have been, what he was glad hadn't been. But maybe should have been.

Julia Quinn

#65. I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think.

Paul Lisicky

#66. If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

Rafe Spall

#67. It's a good thing you don't bring Lily in to the bar. If they see what a beautiful baby you made, we'll have to double our napkin orders."
He propped his elbows on the bar so his face was very close to hers.
"I can't make magic like Lily with any woman but you.

Shannon Stacey

#68. The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.

Kevin Mitnick

#69. When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Epictetus

#70. Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#71. When you sit and watch the film with an audience, the focus groups and the cards and all of that is the less what you're worrying about. When you watch a film with an audience you see what is working and what's not working.

Christopher McQuarrie

#72. Well see what you wanna see. You should see it all. Well take what you want from me. You deserve it all. Nine times out of ten our hearts just get dissolved. Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall.

Modest Mouse

#73. In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.

Jack Keane

#74. Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

Flannery O'Connor

#75. More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

George Saunders

#76. It has been said, people drawn to law enforcement have a sixth sense, an ability to see what others do not. He prayed he was wrong. His sixth sense said there was much more than a broken heart in Claire's past.

Aleatha Romig

#77. I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

Neil Jordan

#78. It begins with the kind of story the writers want to tell. We never sit around in those retreats and say, 'We really need to make a change. Let's change this character.' Or throw a dart at the wall and see what hits. It all begins with story.

Jason Aaron

#79. All the world says: yes we know what's written in the books but now let's see what our eyes tell us.

Bertolt Brecht

#80. You see what you expect to see. You see what you have the labels to see. You see what you have the skills to manage. Everything else is a blur.

Sue Annis Hammond

#81. Oh, boy. Now you see what you've done, Monica Lewinsky, you stupid, stupid tart, I thought. Because of you, I have to explain to my Nana, while she's in a hospital bed with an enlarged gallbladder, what oral sex is. Do you see the damage you've caused? Do you see where your sinful path has led?

Laurie Notaro

#82. Sometimes, we
become so familiar with the primal sacred story of the Bible that we need some fresh takes on it, telling us the same thing in different ways, or giving us some new vantage points to see what was always there, things we'd missed before.

Brian D. McLaren

#83. Let me see what I have that will 'abide the fire.'

Susannah Spurgeon

#84. Open your eyes. Look at me. I need you to see what you do to me.

M.J. Carnal

#85. 1 JOHN 3 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Anonymous

#86. There is a shadow wherever there is light, but the mind can see what the eyes can't.

Atul Randev

#87. Nothing remained now but to take my freedom to my chamber, to carry it with me to my bed and see what I could make of it.

Charlotte Bronte

#88. While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.

Woody Allen

#89. If you come as softly
as the wind within the trees.
You may hear what I hear.
See what sorrow sees.
If you come as lightly
as threading dew,
I will take you gladly,
nor ask more of you.

Jacqueline Woodson

#90. If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again.

Sylvia Earle

#91. Lord, help me to see what comes my way as an opportunity instead of an inconvenience.

Lysa TerKeurst

#92. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. You see what I'm saying? At

Sarah Dessen

#93. When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

Questlove

#94. We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.

Rob Bell

#95. Nothing scared me more than the dark. I liked to see what was coming, and darkness was a place where things could hide.

Kami Garcia

#96. I had to come see what little Maddie Daniels was blowing.

J. Lynn

#97. It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand.

Alison Eastwood

#98. But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.

Veronica Roth

#99. I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.

Dick Dale

#100. I'm starting to see what he must have seen in her. What he must have loved.

Paula Hawkins