Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter. Marcus Aurelius
Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there. Richard Feynman
The conditions of the near future must naturally develop from those which we see today; and I think that as we look about us, unless we are terribly prejudiced, we must admit that in spite of our boasted civilization there is very much which is highly unsatisfactory. p. 324. Charles Webster Leadbeater
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward. Antonin Artaud
We look about in vain for any semblance of the old authority, the old absolute, for any suitable foothold from which to get a running start. Carl L. Becker
When thy neighbour's house is on fire it's time to look about thee. Dutch Proverb