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"The world always looks straights ahead; as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself; I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward; as for me, I roll about in myself."
"Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots."
"Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward."
"Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into."
"I'm trolling through the recesses of my mind for the things I did with my kids when they used to like to do things with me. They don't want to be around me now. I look back on these times - all those little funny pottery dishes that you'd pay for, and they'd paint, and they were ugly, and you glazed them, and you'd go back, pick them up, and it's like, "Oh, now I've got to put this on my desk." There's all that kind of stuff."
"Let every man look before he leaps."
"Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do."
"The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others ... The worst part is that most of us are not even aware that we are not free."
"Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past."
"Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion."
"I still don't look like what I think I look like."
"Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265"
"Oh absolutely. Look they hate all conservatives but they have a special kind of loathing for women conservatives."
"Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is."
"It's been interesting to look back on those works [I've done previously] and see all the things that Beyoncé has done and become for us in the meantime, because back then, folks were like, "Why Beyoncé? I don't get why she is kind of the symbol for black womanhood.""
"We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art."
"I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!"
"It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts."
"If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you."
"It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world."
