Quotes About External

The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlor remains clean.

I don't knock films or television shows, but they nail you down to a kind of externality. Nothing is going to be communicated which demands a softer approach--or let's say a more insidious approach--into the soul.

Whatever we think of particular poems, "poetry" is a word for the meeting place of the private and the public, the internal and the external: My capacity to express myself poetically and to comprehend such expression is a fundamental qualification for public recognition.

The way a character looks reflects what's on the inside. I can make myself look really bad, and I can make myself look kind of gorgeous. It's not about me; it's about the character.

We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.

We need to shift our focus from the debates about redistributing refugees within the E.U. and should concentrate more on external border protection.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.

Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium.

The liberal fiscal spending of the 2004-08 period was made possible both by rising government revenues and national income growth and by relative comfort on the external side. After 2009,these pillars of growth began to wobble. By 2012, they were shaking.

One of the problems with industries that have been in relatively long-term declines is that, very often, the managements in those industries develop a kind of loser mentality. And when you ask them what's wrong with the business, they'll point to extraneous forces.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals

Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

No encontraremos propósito ni significado en las leyes de la naturaleza, o en los planes de ningún agente externo que hizo que las cosas sean como son; nos corresponde a nosotros generarlos.

But I promise you… this country will never be destroyed from the outside. Not by any ideology or foreign power… and certainly not by you.

I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature.

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

Joy, it is, which I've never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self – delight in something external, not satisfaction of some inner craving.

Joy, it is, which I've never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self-delight in something external, not satisfaction of some inner craving.

You do not dress to please yourself; you dress to please others.

But borrowing strength builds weakness. It builds weakness in the borrower because it reinforces dependence on external factors to get things done.

But borrowing strength builds weakness. It builds weakness in the borrower because it reinforces dependence on external factors to get things done. It builds weakness in the person forced to acquiesce