Externalizing Quotes

#1. The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

William S. Burroughs

#2. The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing.

Elizabeth Towne

#3. Action is a way of externalizing an emotional state. You might not be running, leaping, climbing and doing all that. But, the way you create that emotional state in a movie is by having the characters have physical jeopardy that they have to work against.

James Cameron

#4. A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

Jayne Mansfield

#5. Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

Bill Kraus

#6. CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. When people thank you for doing something, you begin to realize how truly blessed you were to have been put in that position.

Jason Varitek

#8. There's a smoking hot, naked woman wiggling into red lace underwear in front of me. I'm lucky I can remember my name."

~ Sam Fitzpatrick

Mackenzie Crowne

#9. Acting is not my language at all.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#10. There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.

Gautama Buddha