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Quotes About Externalize

My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something that large enterprises do and they become large by doing it.
~ Roger Scruton
Instead of the benign competition to secure a market share, we discover a malign competition to externalize costs. The firm that can transfer its costs to others has the advantage over the one that must meet its costs itself, and if the costs can be transferred so widely that it is impossible to identify a victim, they can be effectively written off.
~ Roger Scruton
Over a large range of cases, environmental problems arise from our entirely reasonable habit of taking the benefits of our activities, while passing on the costs. The environment is degraded because we externalize the costs of what we do; and the solution is to find the motives that will return the costs to the one who creates them.
~ Roger Scruton
The first set of principles lays out some habits of mind we would do well to adopt, starting with this one: whenever possible, we should offload information, externalize it, move it out of our heads and into the world.
~ Annie Murphy Paul
If she could externalize, make the emotion other, she would not believe it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.
~ John Updike
From childish fear springs the desire to externalise the ego.
~ Bertrand Russell
William Ashe doesn't believe in destiny. The word itself is actually shorthand people use when they wish to mysticize random events or externalize the results of their own willful choices.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
Over the last few millennia, we've invented a series of technologies … that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to outsource this fundamental human capacity.
~ Joshua Foer
It's cool how to see how my creative juices have shown themselves when they're not being used for 'Euphoria' every day. I'm trying to find a new rhythm as to how I'm going to externalize my artistic energies. It's a moment of re-formation.
~ Hunter Schafer
I'm an emotional person, and I externalise my feelings a lot with some things, but I'm strong with others.
~ Luis Suarez
Nothing befalls man that is not the nature of himself. People emerge out of the mass betraying their close affinity to your moods as they are engendered. You meet them seemingly by accident but find they are intimates of your moods. Because your moods continually externalise themselves you could prophesy from your moods, that you, without search, would soon meet certain characters and encounter certain conditions.
~ Neville Goddard
Our subconscious assumptions continually externalise themselves that others may see us as we subconsciously see ourselves, and tell us by their actions what we have subconsciously assumed ourselves to be.
~ Neville Goddard