Quotes About Internal Conflict

#1. Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

James McAvoy

#2. We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Frans De Waal

#3. The dissatisfaction and internal conflict that I had felt throughout my life wasn't due to my husband or my marriage or my career. It was because for the majority of my life I had been trying to be something that I wasn't. I was not true to myself.

Louisa Leontiades

#4. I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

George Blagden

#6. I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.

Zach Galifianakis

#7. Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

Russell M. Nelson

#8. Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#9. That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

Laila Robins

#10. Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.

Amy Waldman

#11. Aligning your values and beliefs to your behaviour, increases your chances of being effective at living a fulfilling life without the stress of guilt-consciousness, internal strife or internal conflict

Archibald Marwizi

#12. I was unhindered by internal conflict - a state of being that I have come to see as fundamental to the learning process.

Josh Waitzkin

#13. I like that about you. I like your internal conflict, your sweetness.

Christina Lauren

#14. If we negotiate our internal conflict, we would be able to resolve our problems and not commit the same mistake again

Saaif Alam

#15. I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.

Kenny Loggins

#16. If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? Doing to others an act you'd rather not have done to you reveals a powerful internal conflict.

Alexandra Katehakis

#17. I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.

Richard C. Armitage

#18. Normality may lie in being a selectively deaf self-righteous victim of your own cognitive dissonance...but then again...who wants to be an open minded but self-doubting fence-sitter paralyzed by internal conflict? life eh?

Tweedy Peanut

#19. The mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

Howard Raiffa

#20. We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

Bruce Jackson

#21. The mentality of who is your uncle - an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan's internal conflicts.

Duop Chak Wuol

#22. Religious training and indoctrination creates internal states that are in conflict with natural urges and drives.

Darrel Ray

#23. We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.

Charlie Dent

#24. Cowards and courage make for great conflict. Embodied within the statement above is the idea that imperfect heroes are the most satisfying because true courage is facing what you fear, trying even though the odds of failure are great. Internal

Debra Dixon

#25. The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.

Abhijit Naskar

#26. How shallow to presume war exists only within the physical world. Battles are waged for mind and soul, where things far from comprehension are confronted.

Christopher Hawke

#27. She swore this time around she'd listen to her instincts, and right now they told her to be careful. She'd had to fight hard for everything she had, and risking everything for a little fun didn't seem wise.

Rachel Spangler

#28. Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and anger-fixated parts of an individual. Thus, an internal and perpetual cycle of rage-shame-fear creates inner chaos and pain.

Suzette Boon

#29. 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

#30. I hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#31. The irony of the human heart is that it's tormented both by the presence and absence of it's own soul's counterpart.

Crystal Woods

#32. I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

Miranda Richardson

#33. Team Victor or Team Brandon?

E.A. Stripling

#34. You fight yourself, Zach. And you keep fighting yourself. And it's killing you because you're fighting the best part of yourself.

Benjamin Alire Saenz