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Quotes About External

La belleza interior es la que se emplea por una necesidad interior imperiosa, renunciando a la belleza habitual. Naturalmente, parece fea al que no está acostumbrado a ella, ya que el ser humano en general tiende a lo externo y no está dispuesto a reconocer la necesidad interior (¡especialmente hoy!)
~ Wassily Kandinsky
After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.
~ Wendy Shalit
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External
~ Whittaker Chambers
Empiricism: The school of philosophy that maintains that knowledge of the external world (as compared to knowledge of analytic logic and its proper applications) comes only from sensory experience. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Empiricism came in reaction to rationalism. Empiricism is a stance in epistemology. It is sometimes summed up by the statement, "What you see is all you get.
~ Daniel Klein
Stories teach us through symbolic experiences how to be human. Therefore, this book will illustrate that when the dramatic tension is focused on the internal conflict, the external action becomes much more powerful and significant because it reflects what we know to be true about our own lives: We (and our characters) grow and evolve internally in direct relationship to the conflicts and obstacles that we face and overcome in the external world.
~ Dara Marks
Moreover, when you interact with the external world, you get more involved with realistic rules of thumb. When you're in your head, by contrast, you can imagine anything. This is why anticipatory worry is almost always worse than anything that actually happens in real life—there are no rules in your head, anything seems possible! In the external world, the rules of reality apply.
~ David A. Carbonell
The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.
~ David Ben Gurion
The basic causes of change are precisely those that are not subject to conscious control.
~ James Dale Davidson
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
~ James Graham Ballard
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
~ James Merrill
To have such boundaries means that the date, place, and membership of each finite game are externally defined.
~ James P. Carse
But I," she thought, "am not a whole person. I belong not to myself, but to something outside of me.
~ Agatha Christie
When your number one job is serving the needs of users, and some external force tries to divert your efforts to some other goal, your number one job now changes to removing that external force. It doesn't matter if that external force has more economic or political power than you do. Your job is clear.
~ Alan Cooper
too often "managements 'navel gaze' and look for problems or solutions only within their own organization."86 A viable strategic plan needs to focus first on the external world to determine what to do before focusing inward on how to do it.
~ Alan Wurtzel
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
~ Alanis Morissette
Central to these was and is the claim that it is only possible to understand the dominant moral culture of advanced modernity adequately from a standpoint external to that culture.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.
~ Joshua Waitzkin
I said the only way I would join Pets.com was if I could get Amazon to invest, and I did. I knew that anything that could be sourced externally, Amazon could do better and cheaper than anyone else except Walmart. It was really obvious to me.
~ Julie Wainwright
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
~ John Boyd Orr
Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
~ Forest Whitaker
Execution is what gives you an edge in detecting new realities in the external environment as well as risks that are being introduced, perhaps inadvertantly, to your own operations.
~ Ram Charan
Tú puedes separarte de lo que es externo a ti, pero no de lo que uno es contigo.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Trust me, all the innovative ideas that we put into practice, comes not within but outside the workplace!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Your perception is riveting, Amal," he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on my desk. "It's comforting to know that there are people in my class who have the maturity and intelligence to make derogatory comments about other people's external appearances." Now what am I supposed to say to that? "What do you have to say for yourself?" Friggin' mind reader.
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah