Look Up Quotes - Page 40

• It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Real, Smart, Winning

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• A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Boys, Feet

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.119, Penguin

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• I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last  There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Real, Deeds Done

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• When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Deities, Looks, Might

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Morgan Freeman - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to look up in the dictionary. The books are shorter, but there's just not that much difference other than that to be honest. And the funny thing is, I have adult writer friends [to whom I would say], "Would you think of writing a children's book?" and they go, "No, God, I wouldn't know how." They're quite intimidated by the concept of it. And when I say to children's books writers, would they write an adult book, they say no because they think they're too good for it.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.

  Earl Monroe

  Stars, Guy, Needs

  "'The Pearl' Still Shining: An Interview with New York Knicks Legend Earl Monroe". Interview with Keith Schlosser, bleacherreport.com. November 24, 2009.

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• The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Looks, May, Helping

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.121, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.

  Charlie Brooker

  Years, Differences, Smartphones

  "Apple's software updates are like changing the water in a fish tank. I'd rather let the fish die" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

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• In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can this person advance my standing?   In the hierarchy, the artist looks up and looks down. The one place he can't look is that place he must: within.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Meeting Someone, Looks

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.151, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

  Yoko Ono

  Nice, Sky, Giving

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• I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

  Max Carver

  Thinking, Community, Looks

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• It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany… Most of our male colleagues continued for a long time to look upon us as charming and gifted amateurs, denying us implicitly any real professional status.

  Hannah Hoch

  Real, Artist, Long

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• Be somebody for your kids to look up to.

  Webbie

  Kids, Looks

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• A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Loss, Grandchildren, Ideas

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.117, Palgrave Macmillan

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• "A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Character, Pride

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.245

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• One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations”, p.26

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• There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the Son of God's kingdom.

  Si Robertson

  Mean, Kids, Son

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• Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake.

  Harvey Penick

  Mistake, Looks, Made

  Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Look, up in the sky! It's the sky!

  John Flansburgh

  Sky, Looks

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• I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mother, Nursing, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.760, Xist Publishing

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• Snoop [Dog] is my favorite artist of all time. He's someone I look up to.

  Kid Cudi

  Dog, Artist, Looks

  "Kid Cudi Talks Wale, Reebok, Shia Labeouf & Being Bigger Than Kanye". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.

  James Joyce

  Night, Names, Maleficent

  James Joyce (2014). “The Dead and Other Stories: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.17, Broadview Press

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• The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
  He wears the words he reads to look upon
  Within his being.

  Wallace Stevens

  Reading, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.492, Vintage

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• All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate a different perspective into the process, to give young women something to shoot for and someone to look up to. But all things are rarely equal.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Order, Careers

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