Quotes About Intrinsic

Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

what is good is integral to itself. That is also why it is not worthwhile to change yourself, your hair or skin or eyes. What is integral to you will always be superior to what is tacked on, simply because it is yours.

The terrible things that happened to you didn't make you you. You always were.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

You've got to pull yourself out of the materialistic environments—the environments that are reinforcing the materialistic values," he says, because they cripple your internal satisfactions. And then, he says, to make that sustainable, you have to "replace them with actions that are going to provide those intrinsic satisfactions, [and] encourage those intrinsic goals.

Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

The orchestra is within you and you carry it with you wherever you go. The things and people outside you merely determine what particular melody the orchestra will play. And when there is no one or nothing that has your attention the orchestra will play a music of its own; it needs no outside stimulation. You now carry in your heart a happiness that nothing outside of you can put there, and nothing can take away.

I think that there's certain music that instead of saying a lot of different things that are on my psyche, I just say, 'I've aged out.' Because that is the best way of putting it, because a lot of things I simply don't understand and will not understand and can't see any intrinsic value in.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

The thing about school is that if you're forced into learning stuff, you're not going to be into it.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses.

Books can be bought. A house can be rebuilt, darlin. You can't be replaced.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

In 1971, the U.S. 'closed the gold window,' starting an era of global fiat money reference-pricing that has been unprecedented in history. Never before had the world operated on the basis of no country anywhere having a currency tied to something with intrinsic value like gold.

Music was always ever present when I was growing up, and it's continued to be the most important and intrinsic part of me. It kept me from going off the rails as a kid, and it gave me rare purpose and self-confidence that I couldn't find from anything else.

I never need to be motivated to be on the court. That's the one thing that comes very naturally to me.

We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves—or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves.