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Quotes About External

The question: "Do I have to have the conflict outside the character? Can't I have the character at war with himself inside his head?" Answer: The conflict has to be on the outside. If you remember the example of writing something which could be put on the theater stage, you will not forget this principle.
~ Unknown
Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
~ James Anthony Froude
His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.
~ Lydia Davis
Because there's a big difference between happiness and joy. Happiness is external and can change when your circumstances change. If you believe that money will make you happy, for instance, and then you lose all your money, you'll be very unhappy. But joy is deep inside us and isn't dependent on circumstances.
~ Lynn Austin
Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
A pause here as the people around the fire, predominately male, contemplated the amputation of their entire sex for the sin of having external genitalia.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
it's like having you around draws her out of herself. She's more of everything on the outside, and less of it on the inside, where she can bottle it up." Which was the finest description of a common cause of physical ailment-inducing stress
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
A work of art is essentially the internal made external, resulting from a creative process operating under the impulse of feeling, and embodying the combined product of the poet's perceptions, thoughts, and feelings. The primary source and subject matter of a poem, therefore, are the attributes and actions of the poet's own mind; or of if aspects of the external world, then these only as they are converted from fact to poetry by the feelings and operations of the poet's mind.
~ Unknown
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, for itself, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure for duration by means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.
~ John Gribbin
all this shallow, superficial, external
~ John Lescroart
A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support.
~ Unknown
Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.
~ Rodrigo Rato
My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.
~ Joan Larkin
Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.
~ Mark Driscoll
The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.
~ David Platt
Just because you see me happy on the outside. Doesnt mean that I'm also happy in the inside...
~ Unknown
Many people believe that happiness is the result of external situations in life. Unfortunately, that kind of happiness is short lived. Contentment is real wealth which enrich our life with treasurer of happiness & satisfaction.
~ Unknown
If God were corporeal, He would consist of atoms, and would not be one; or He would be comparable to other beings: but a comparison implies the existence of similar and of dissimilar elements, and God would thus not be one. A corporeal God would be finite, and an external power would be required to define those limits.
~ Maimonides
For all the strides the Nation [of Islam] had made in promoting self-improvement in the lives of its members, its political isolation had left it powerless to change the external conditions that bounded their freedoms (177).
~ Manning Marable
Le chagrin qui n'est nullement une conclusion pessimiste librement tirée d'un ensemble de circonstances funestes, mais la reviviscence intermittente et involontaire d'une impression spécifique, venue du dehors, et que nous n'avons pas choisie.
~ Marcel Proust
Kaybetmekten en çok korktu?umuz zenginlikler, kalbimiz taraf?ndan ele geçirilmedikleri için, d???m?zda kalm?? olanlard?r.
~ Marcel Proust
Voglio dire che mancano le motivazioni. L'unica incrinatura seria consisteva nel fatto che il suo tempo interno e il tempo esterno non coincidevano. Ma dimmi, Rosa... non credi che se questo fosse un motivo sufficiente per togliersi la vita, il nostro paese sarebbe quasi completamente spopolato?
~ Unknown
To be sure, external things of whatever kind require skill in their use, but we must not grow attached to them; whatever they are, they should only serve for us to show how skilled we are in our handling of them.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley