Quotes About Internal Dialogue

#1. Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

Carlos Castaneda

#2. The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition - the words you silently use, over and over again, in your internal dialogue with yourself.

Napoleon Hill

#3. If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone.

Rajneesh

#4. Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.

Laura Harvey

#5. If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.

Gangaji

#6. Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

Viola Davis

#7. Once flooded with light, our boogeymen diminish, no longer ogres in our imagination. We welcome internal dialogue for its treasures.

Gina Greenlee

#8. To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

Deepak Chopra

#9. The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

Carlos Castaneda

#10. Is he about to kiss me? Did he eat garlic too or was I the only one? 'Cause if Ric didn't eat garlic then my breath's gonna stink and he'll think ... Oh for fuck sake, shut up internal dialogue!

Zathyn Priest

#11. Everybody can make a choice to be more positive. It's about who you hang around and what you choose to watch on TV. What environment you put yourself in. It's easy to get a negative internal dialogue. You have to be aware of what's playing in your mind.

Victoria Osteen

#12. Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Deepak Chopra

#13. When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#14. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#15. I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

Conor Oberst

#16. I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

Maynard James Keenan

#17. A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.

Lisa Firestone

#18. Every cell is eavesdropping on your
internal dialogue.

Deepak Chopra

#19. 3. The unconscious mind controls the internal dialogue.

Jay Conrad Levinson

#20. Monitor your self-talk, that internal dialogue of what you are telling yourself every day.

Tom Benfield

#21. When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Carlos Castaneda

#22. Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

Kara Swisher

#23. When there is complete peace of mind when the outer world is chaotic you will truly be free.

Matthew Donnelly

#24. 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

#25. Ask yourself "Is the inside of me alive?

Matthew Donnelly

#26. Also, as a result of the involvement of American foundations that have backing from the U.S. State Department in Iranian internal politics, cultural exchange and dialogue have become more and more problematic.

Mohammad Marandi

#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. [M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

Charles Taylor

#29. Why can't this family let us make our own life decisions?

Evelyn Smith

#30. We are all either conditioned by belief system or consciousness. Belief system is built through the world, consciousness is built from within.

Matthew Donnelly

#31. Nerds obsess. We zealously deconstruct. We have a very active internal monologue (which may feel more like a dialogue sometimes). I think that so many of the things we undertake are a partial attempt to distract this monologue. We are hyper-self-aware. We have difficulty chilling out.

Chris Hardwick