Quotes About External

Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

Prizes and medals. Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness, and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go.

Internal and external purification, contentment, mortification, study, and worship of God are the Niyamas.

When the mind has attained to that state when it identifies itself with the internal impression of the object, leaving the external, and when, by long practice, that is retained by the mind and the mind can get into that state in a moment, that is Samyama.

E xternal nature is only internal nature writ large

Because a grumpy mood that seems to come out of the blue is so inexplicable, I think we go around looking for something to feel annoyed about, some external circumstance to dislike in order to discharge that energy. Even

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Social man lives constantly outside himself.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

The problem is not primarily external and resolved by learning to behave better. The problem is internal

We're all criminally insane, but most of us have good control mechanisms, internal and external. Remove the controls and you have a killer.

Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.