External Influence Quotes

#1. Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

Nikola Tesla

#2. I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

Oscar Wilde

#3. had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself. I did not want any external influence in my life. You

Oscar Wilde

#4. God is Love. Love is the deepest depth, the essence of his nature, at the root of all his being.

George MacDonald

#5. If our sense of self, our values and our ideals, do not originate from within - but are instead largely influenced, shaped or fashioned by celebrated characters - we fall under the spells of idol worship without realizing we have 'souled out'.

T.F. Hodge

#6. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

Samuel Johnson

#7. Rikshospital. He was in the rhythm now. Time was not chopped up by events; it flowed in an even stream.

Jo Nesbo

#8. Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

Alexandre Dumas

#9. It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

Sigmund Freud

#10. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

Charles Dickens

#11. We do not imagine that the "masses" may consist of automatons obeying external stimuli and may move, not under the influence of the will, consciousness, or inclination of individuals, but under the influence of external stimuli coming possibly from very far away.

P.D. Ouspensky

#12. Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion ... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections ... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

Charles Dickens

#14. I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

Henri Bergson

#15. We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

William Ellery Channing

#16. Drew Callahan is my absolute weakness. Like a drug I can't get enough of. He's my addiction and if I'm honest with myself, I'm not looking to kick that particular habit anytime soon.

Monica Murphy

#17. Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

Samuel Johnson

#18. But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.

John L. Lewis

#19. I used to know Brian Howard well
a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous
constantly attacking people with his fists in public places
so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.

Evelyn Waugh

#20. without facts, rumor, innuendo, intimation, and supposition have a way of conflating into myth.

Eric Van Lustbader

#21. It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

Lata Mangeshkar

#22. And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.

Dallas Willard

#23. You, know, I always thought I wanted a knight in shining armor ... But I like my dashing rouge much better ... Angel, shiny armor just means the knight never went to battle ...

Nichole Chase

#24. Psalms 25:

20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.

21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

Anonymous

#25. Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

Alain De Botton

#26. Deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

Jonathon Porritt

#27. Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.

Charles Lyell

#28. Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

Brian Tracy

#29. When someone says your name like that, when they won't even look you in the eyes, there is nothing more you can do or say. Their mind is made up.

Jay Asher

#30. 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.

Gottfried Leibniz

#31. That I'm an alcoholic is completely ridiculous.

Shannen Doherty