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Quotes About External

It's natural, at first, to resist this idea, as it's undoubtedly easier to continue to allow the twin forces of internal whim and external requests to drive your schedule. But you must overcome this distrust of structure if you want to approach your true potential as someone who creates things that matter.
~ Cal newport
In the context of smart contract platforms, an oracle is any data source for reporting information external to the blockchain. How can we create an oracle that can authoritatively speak about off-chain information in a trust-minimized way?
~ Campbell R. Harvey
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves
~ Carl Gustav Jung
La vostra visione vi apparirà più chiara soltanto quando guarderete nel vostro cuore. Chi guarda l'esterno, sogna. Chi guarda all'interno si sveglia.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Lean defines two types of customers that we must design for: the external customer (who most likely pays for the service we are delivering) and the internal customer (who receives and processes the work immediately after us). According to Lean, our most important customer is our next step downstream. Optimizing our work for them requires that we have empathy for their problems in order to better identify the design problems that prevent fast and smooth flow.
~ Gene Kim
From a scientific perspective the truly revolutionary character of the Industrial Revolution was the dramatic change from an open system where energy is supplied externally by the sun to a closed system where energy is supplied internally by fossil fuel.
~ Geoffrey West
There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.
~ George Eliot
are—and yet refer to something permanent, which must, therefore, be distinct from all my representations and external to me, the existence
~ Immanuel Kant
The essence of things is not altered by their external relations, and that which, abstracting from these, alone constitutes the absolute worth of man is also that by which he must be judged, whoever the judge may be, and even by the Supreme Being.
~ Immanuel Kant
I cannot, therefore, perceive external things, but can only infer their existence from my own inner perception, by taking the perception as the effect of which something external must be the proximate cause.
~ Immanuel Kant
Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside.
~ Russian proverb
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.
~ Ivan Pavlov
Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It's a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we're telling ourselves is what we see on TV.
~ David Goggins
With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.
~ Joshua Foer
A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.
~ Susanna Tamaro
but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.
~ Susanna Tamaro
La felicidad es, respecto a la alegría, como una lámpara eléctrica respecto al sol. La felicidad siempre tiene un objeto, somos felices por algo, es un sentimiento cuya existencia depende de lo exterior. La alegría, en cambio, no tiene objeto. Te posee sin ningún motivo aparente, en su esencia se parece al sol: arde gracias a la combustión de su propio corazón.
~ Susanna Tamaro
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~ Susanna Tamaro
I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings me back to why I got in music in the first place, so I'm excited about that.
~ Sam Hunt
I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
~ Grace Slick
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
~ Stephen Covey
I think all of us as NBA players have expectations of ourselves that are different from expectations from external forces and sources.
~ Gordon Hayward