Top 100 Internal External Quotes
#1. What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.
Sarah Monette
#2. We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.
Frederick Lenz
#3. No matter how much violence or how many bad things we have to go through, I believe that the ultimate solution to our conflicts, both internal and external, lies in returning to our basic or underlying human nature, which is gentle and compassionate.
Dalai Lama XIV
#4. Our external results are merely a reflection of our internal reality.
Joan Posivy
#5. The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.
Aruna Roy
#6. Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.
Gene Spafford
#7. All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don't attach with the things, that doesn't serve you, either in your internal or external life, slowly those things lose grip on you, and you release yourself from it forever.
Roshan Sharma
#8. The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.
Tony Blair
#9. Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.
Lia Ices
#10. Be attentive, paying close attention to your internal and external needs.
Asa Don Brown
#11. The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
Franz Grillparzer
#12. The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both.
William McKinley
#13. Eden is within you; it is your life's garden. It is from this internal garden that you experience your external life. If you see weeds, pluck them!
Steve Maraboli
#14. Love needs no reason material, external. But love lives strongly within reason, internal.
Dew Platt
#15. The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#16. While we all need external structure in our lives - some degree of predictability, routine, organization - those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure.
Edward M. Hallowell
#17. Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.
Archibald Marwizi
#18. We're all
criminally insane, but most of us have good control mechanisms,
internal and external. Remove the controls and you have a killer.
Nelson DeMille
#19. The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#20. The only kind of love to be found, is within you. That other kind everybody wants... it finds you.
T.F. Hodge
#21. There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - apart from, sometimes, music - to breach the barrier, to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.
Jenny Colgan
#22. Discussing external migration issues is impossible without discussing internal migration issues
Jack Goldstone
#23. Combining internal drive and determination with positive external support was key to my recovery.
Amy Rankin
#24. The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of poetical faculty, proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world; and man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#25. I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces
with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way the government sticks its nose into everything now.
Robert A. Heinlein
#26. Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.
Stephen Covey
#27. 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
#28. External pressure seems to produce internal unity.
Kenneth Waltz
#29. Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen.
Sylvia Boorstein
#30. Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
W. Clement Stone
#31. Look, all I'm asking you to consider is that you have the power to change things. What if the reason you were given that power is to defend those without any? Both from external and internal harm. Like a shieldmaiden for your people.
Mary Weber
#32. We must abandon the external height images in which the theistic God has historically been perceived and replace them with internal depth images of a deity who is not apart from us, but who is the very core and ground of all that is. - Paul Tillich
Diana Butler Bass
#33. Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions.
Debasish Mridha
#34. Beauty does not depend on external details; Beauty reflects the inner disposition, the internal state of one's being.
Morari Bapu
#35. To say yes to your dreams means the internal and external war, battle, confrontation and warfare. But it doesn't mean you should give up on your dreams because you were already given the capacity and ability to overcome the adversary, before the foundations of the earth.
Euginia Herlihy
#36. A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.
Albert Einstein
#37. Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on!
Tricia Cunningham
#38. We are imprisoned within, hypnotized without, denying ourselves access to the internal peace and external harmony. Can we execute the perfect jailbreak when we have become our own jailers?
Russell Brand
#39. Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
Natan Sharansky
#40. You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God.
Bill Johnson
#41. Best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea.
And this is the age of the idea
Gyan Nagpal
#42. Don't be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around; the path that needs changing is the one in your mind.
Susan Jeffers
#43. Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
Gilles Deleuze
#44. External actions are evidence of internal beliefs. Our deeds are what show our creeds.
Tim Hiller
#45. Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to evade.
James Surowiecki
#46. Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to things like an auditory, visual or tactile signal or perform a specific set of actions according to a date and/or time.
Alison Miller
#47. Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.
Priscilla Shirer
#48. An organization with excellent internal communication will run smoothly, allowing its members to progress toward a mutual goal, which will ultimately affect the quality of external communication.
Scribendi
#49. You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)
Injap Sia
#50. A happy heart can walk in triumphant indifference through a sea of external trouble; while internal anguish cannot find happiness in the most favorable surroundings.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#51. All deities are external manifestation of humanity's internal divinity.
Abhijit Naskar
#52. If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.
Stephen Covey
#53. Internal marketing is probably much more important than external marketing. That's even more true today than it's ever been.
Tom Stewart
#54. It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature ... This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion.
Swami Vivekananda
#55. I stay away from straight bench; all the work I do is with dumbbells to protect my rotator cuffs. Then I'll do a bunch of different pull moves like inverted rows before finishing with some simple internal or external rotations with a band to strengthen my shoulder.
Andrew Luck
#56. OUR MOST IMPORTANT CHOICE in life, according to Epictetus, is whether to concern ourselves with things external to us or things internal. Most people choose the former because they think harms and benefits come from outside themselves.
William Irvine
#57. God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress.
Max Anders
#58. Through itself the soul arrives at all harmony that is perceptible in otherness-just as through what is internal the soul arrives at what is external.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#59. Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#60. 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
#61. Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward.
Shannon L. Alder
#62. External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.
Swami Vivekananda
#63. No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
Swami Vivekananda
#64. Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild.
Gyalwa Dokhampa
#65. If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.
T.F. Hodge
#66. [Christian theology] awakens pain over the present internal and external enslavements of human beings
Jurgen Moltmann
#67. I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
Norman Spinrad
#68. When studying the world's religions, there appear to be two primary paths available to those who want to practice their faith. One path is internal and contemplative in nature. The other is emotional, external, and actionable in nature. I have identified these as the paths of oneness and goodness.
Gudjon Bergmann
#69. Science is proving it now and the old spiritual books said it centuries ago that negative thoughts are the primary source of all the internal and external diseases/illnesses!
Maddy Malhotra
#70. Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.
Amit Ray
#71. Don't let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you're capable of unless you try.
Sheryl Sandberg
#72. It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever.
Sunday Adelaja
#73. Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.
Jacob Needleman
#74. We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
Manmohan Singh
#75. A show of power is not the same as silent power.
T.F. Hodge
#76. Human kindness is deeply subversive to totalitarian creeds, which seek to thwart all compassion toward those deemed unworthy of moral consideration, those branded as internal or external enemies.
Chris Hedges
#77. Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#78. I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.
Rebecca Stead
#79. A vacation is external. A pilgrimage is internal. An adventure combines them.
Eddy L. Harris
#80. It is in the most undesirable of external circumstances that we discover internal qualities like courage, faith, compassion, inspiration, acceptance, and love.
Christine Hassler
#81. What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
James Madison
#82. Internal and external world is interdependent. Your experiences and impressions of the outside world shape your thoughts and imagination, while making the choice and decisions, from your internal thought process, creates your physical reality.
Roshan Sharma
#83. A metamorphosis had come over us. It was something internal, an electrical pulse in the brain, some slight variation in the aortic rhythm that had forever altered our states, transformed our external structures. We were not who we had been, nor yet what we would become.
Cliff James
#84. Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.
William J.H. Boetcker
#85. Realisation' means it is an experience. Outside forces cannot make me feel successful. I have to feel it within myself. It is internal not external. That is why what often appears success externally may be total hollowness internally.
Shiv Khera
#86. I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.
Robert Pozen
#87. The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality.
Hua Ching Ni
#88. Internal and external purification, contentment, mortification, study, and worship of God are the Niyamas.
Swami Vivekananda
#89. At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.
Jennifer McMahon
#90. I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head.
Kem Nunn
#91. The greatest power we have in life is not external, but internal.
Steve Knox
#92. A vast engine of wonderful delicacy and intricacy, a machine that is like the tools of the Titans put in your hands. This machinery, in its external fabric so massive and so exquisitely adjusted, and in its internal fabric making new categories of thought, new ways of thinking about life.
Charles Ferguson
#93. It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.
John Cassian
#94. Prayer is conversation with God while driving to work or awaiting an appointment or before interacting with a client. Prayer can be the internal voice that directs the external action.
Max Lucado
#95. Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.
George Will
#96. If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
Cory Booker
#97. The Church is our Mother, which means it is an internal voice. It is not a set of external rules. That's what isn't understood about Catholicism in this Protestant culture. It means that your conscience is formed by the Church, but in the end you're responsible for your own activities.
Francis George
#98. Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.
Dalai Lama
#99. Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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