Outside Looking In Quotes

• From the inside looking out you can never see how it looks from the outside looking in.

  Big Sean

  Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How can U fairly assess someone from the outside looking in ... majority of the times you will be wrong.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Majority

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• We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

  Helen Lynch

  Leadership, Business, Economics

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• We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

  John Zorn

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• Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

  Janet Macunovich

  Design, Yards, Window

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• I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.

  Jennifer Garner

  Thinking, Looks, Geek

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• I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Like You, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Want

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• I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

  Victor Cruz

  Self, Guy, Former

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• I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

  Josh Schwartz

  Aerospace, Looks, Kind

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• Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Children, Believe

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• I might not wear chains or I may just wear a watch or I may not wear any jewelry at all or I may just go all out on an outfit or just rock some basic s*** just a pair of jeans, a t-shirt and ones. But, I still standout more than a lot of people in the room so I can't really describe it but I know from the outside looking in people can explain better than I can.

  Lil Herb

  Rocks, Jeans, People

  Source: thesource.com

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• I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

  Joseph Barbera

  Years

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• Geeks are running the world, anyone who's seen The Social Network knows the dynamic has shifted, but what I think is iconic and timeless about Peter Parker is that he's an outsider, on the outside looking in, and that was something I thought was very important to protect.

  Marc Webb

  Running, Thinking, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• The Bible says that God gave this earth to the sons of men ... and when [Adam] turned and gave that dominion to Satan, look where it left God. If left Him on the outside looking in ... He had no legal right to do anything about it, did He? ... He had injected Himself illegally into the earth -- what Satan had intended for Him to do was to fall for it -- pull off an illegal act and turn the light off in God, and subordinate God to himself ... He intended to get God into such a trap that He couldn't get out.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Fall, Son, Men

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• 'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.

  Michelle Dockery

  Healthy, Looks, Way

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• I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, Literature, Stuff

  "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". PowellsBooks Interview, www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.

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• I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

  Wes Craven

  Thinking, Color, People

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• Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to blame. I also thought of my two boys and what kind of example I hoped to be. I would always want them to take charge of their own futures and not be paralyzed by the comfort and certainty of the status quo or be cowed by the judgment of those on the outside looking in.

  Rob Lowe

  Boys, Two, Comfort

  Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.303, Macmillan

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• 'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s.

  Jonathan Raban

  War, Party, Race Riots

  "Sipping with the Tea Party" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.

  Chris Gethard

  Thinking, Comedian, Trying

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• I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.

  Lil Wayne

  Rap, Ifs

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• I would let my fans and people looking from the outside looking in dictate that. But, in my mind I gotta treat myself like I'm the best and gotta strive to be better than what I am. So of course my work ethic and the way I think as a person and an artist I'll feel that way. But on a boasting level, you would never hear that come out my mouth.

  Lil Herb

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: thesource.com

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• As far as all players [being unfairly connected], people have their own opinions, and they're usually from the outside looking in. I don't listen to someone who is on the outside of what we're dealing with every day on the inside.

  Deshaun Watson

  Player, People, Opinion

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• It seems as though I've always been,somebody outside looking in,well, here I am for all of them to bleed,but they can't take my heart from me,and they can't bring me to my knees,they'll never know the real me.

  Mariah Carey

  Real, Heart, Here I Am

  Song: Looking In, Album: Daydream, 1995

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