External Focus Quotes

#1. When there is no overt [outward] or subtle inner restlessness, it is indeed the state of internal peace. If the chit (inner component of knowledge and vision) concentrates on the external, inner peace breaks down. It is because of the external focus that this world has arisen.

Dada Bhagwan

#2. Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

Tim Ferriss

#3. Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

Bruce Lee

#4. We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.

Thomas Aquinas

#5. Joy, it is, which I've never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self-delight in something external, not satisfaction of some inner craving.

Mary Karr

#6. When we take our focus off of our external selves, and others, God does His best work internally! JW

Evinda Lepins

#7. We are the ones who get bored because our capacity to focus our attention, to delight our minds in sustained thought, has been weakened by our dependence on external stimuli.

John Ortberg

#8. And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in that darkness, and to wonder whether sun and blue skies and wind and birds had not been only a dream.

C.S. Lewis

#9. It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the poor, you have people who won't be paid if there aren't any poor, so they'll be sure to find some.

Jerry Pournelle

#10. You're more likely to slip up when you're trying to accomplish your goals by yourself. It may be that you don't have an outer support system in place to help you maintain focus and provide the external encouragement everyone needs.

Lauren Mackler

#11. What you want to give most is what you want to receive most, and vice versa.

Ronald Wopereis

#12. Your main target should be to find and develop your own unique individuality and not let your focus be sidetracked and drift to external things

Sunday Adelaja

#13. The reward of running - of anything - lies within us ... We focus on something external to motivate us, but we need to remember that it's the process of reaching for that prize - not the prize itself - that can bring us peace and joy.

Scott Jurek

#14. Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

Doris Lessing

#15. There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Mike Birbiglia

#16. Often our biggest distractions are not external, but come from within. Get out of your own way!

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#17. People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.

Nelson Mandela

#18. I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

Liz Williams

#19. People's lives are boring.

Jimmy Kimmel

#20. If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.

Geoff Ramsey

#21. The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more thing we have to get right, and faith becomes the one thing we need to be better at.

Kevin DeYoung