Best Internals Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.”

Way Kind Might Turns Term Changed Approach Treats Cancer Breasts Internals Breast Cancer Anatomy Resemblance Reorganization Gastric

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.”

Thinking Years Next Cities Streets Mass Disappear Thirty Internals Engines Transportation Thirty Years Electrical Combustion Electrical Power

Author:Gaylord Nelson

“Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.”

Facts Loss Grief Known Television Periods Drama Moved Chaos Intense Narrative Internals Friendly Chaotic Static Moved On

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.”

Knows Firsts Form Conditions Changed Internals Biology Primitive Organisms Obliged Simulate

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.”

Ifs Needs Universe Literature Views Impossible Creator Point Of View Internals

Author:Manuel Puig

“Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.”

People Needs War Enemy Internals Dictatorship Start Wars

Author:Richard Perle

“I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.”

School Stuff Goes On Drama Training Internals Makeup Chicago Cake Wardrobe Icing Goodman Icing On The Cake

Author:Michael Rooker

“Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.”

Ifs Looks Civilization Internals

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.”

Persons Actors Careers Gains I Realized Internals

Author:Sonja Sohn

“Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Looks Littles Long Important Sleep Crazy Comfortable Standards Important Things Who You Are Feel Good These Days Internals Going To Sleep

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.”

People Knows Deals Situation Position Iraq Internals Saddam Hussein

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“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.”

Mind Awareness Fields Buddhism Internals

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

People Made Government Risk Taxes India Entrepreneur Competition Attractive Internals Risk-taking Tax System

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.”

World Space Cities Giants Internals Far Away Personal Things

Author:Regina Spektor

“In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.”

Film Courses Debate Internals

Author:Chris Terrio

“There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.”

Ideas Different Force Sound Groups Shapes Bases Structure Various Speed Internals Splits

Author:Edgard Varese

“I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.”

Trying Character Overcoming Aids Mood Internals Editors Evoke

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“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.”

People Thinking Hard Felt Rooms Fiction Conflict Confusion Journalism Contradiction Internals Capture Ambivalence Internal Conflict

Author:Amy Waldman

“Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.”

Art Philosophy Helping Deals Issues Meditation Balance Intention Chess Internals Martial Arts Competing Tao Embodiment Tao Te Ching Tai Chi

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.”

Mind States Energy Consciousness Focus Buddhism Quiet Release Internals Chakra States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

People Poor Pay Ethics Labor Organization Workers Internals Minimum Wages Poor People Minimum Wage

Author:Aruna Roy

“I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.”

Knows Needs Kind Different Actors Process Share Ready Witness Internals Different Kinds

Author:Joe Mantello

“Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain. Nor must we forget that there has often been much more cultural and spiritual freedom under an autocratic rule than under some democracies and it is at least conceivable that under the government of a very homogeneous and doctrinaire majority democratic government might be as oppressive as the worst dictatorship.”

“When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.”

Want Book Sometimes Hard Stuff Opinion Figures Critics Internals Get Over Critique Classmates

Author:Veronica Roth

“Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.”

Community Christianity Intellectual Internals

Book:Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage

Source: Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage

“You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.”

Feels Should Heart Sometimes States Suffering Natural Normal Rhythm Shock Internals Should I Pacing Sudden Death Defibrillators

Author:Victoria Gotti

“A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.”

Important Character Guy Interesting Struggle Screens Internals Bad Guys Duality Good Guy Internal Struggle

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible.”

“While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system - upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.”

Country States Numbers Military Development Resources Dependent Internals Nerves Stability Organs Morale

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.”

War States Military Consequence Direct Internals Civilized Decay Assault Foe Exhaustion Downfall

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!”

Planets Environmental Affair Internals Crowded Internal Affairs

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal knowledge will stay with you from one incarnation to another.”

Gains Stones Lifetime Internals Fades Reincarnation Incarnation Edifice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.”

May Sometimes Hard Remember Voice Accepting Guilt Internals Friendly Reminding Messing Up

Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.”

World Self Force Results Confidence Judgment Relation Self Confidence Realization Internals

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.”

Knows Men Self Reason Feelings Light Desire Force Born Powerful Enemy Anger Blow Superiors Heat Internals Betray Self Control Inferiors Uncontrollable

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.”

World Today Mistake This World Perspective West Invention Internals Engines Missiles Vanishing Combustion Vanishing Point

Author:David Hockney

“Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.”

World Experience Internals Abstraction Subjective

Author:Abraham Maslow

“I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation.”

Thinking World Needs Pain Order Mankind Periods Contradiction Internals New World Strain Emerging New World Order World Order Navigation

Author:William Irwin Thompson

“I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.”

Mind Believe Has Beens Dream Eye Argument Ears Hearing Intuition Senses Internals Suspects Strongest Favour Proverbial

Author:Augustus William Hare

“The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.”

Men Heart Art Art Is Burning Manifestation Internals Justification Shallow Ignite Combustion

Author:Glenn Gould

“The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.”

Used Style Events Opposites Optimistic Internals Explaining Helplessness

Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind.”

World Should Mind Stills Winning Names Behinds Gone This World Mines Flower Bears Despair Fairs Remains Shining Excellence Internals Falsehood Perfume

Author:Charles Godfrey Leland

“We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.”

Ifs Enough Strong Criticism Internals Foe Strong Enough Enough Already

Author:Steven Pressfield

“As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.”

Artist Culture Revolution Tyranny Obligation Consumers Internals Skulls Uprising Insurrection Consumer Culture

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should not be charged a higher tariff just because he -- or she -- is traveling abroad.”

People Should Communication Higher Phones Customers Consumers Internals Mobile Mobile Phones Tariffs

Author:Viviane Reding

“Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.”

May Different Reality Remember Doubt Risk Groups Shapes Perception Rewards Perceive Internals Incentives Marketplace Risk And Reward

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed.”

Ifs Needs Success Values Belief Imagination Vision Succeed Agree Internals Flood

Book:Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate

Source: Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate

“It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.”

Mind Different States Spiritual Sports Achieve Musician Performances Instruments Planes Internals Motivational Sports Great Music Great Musician Great Performance

Author:Arnold Palmer

“Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice.”

Use Advice Guidance Internals Grandmother

Author:Sark

“What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.”

Men Mean Ideas Moral Conditions Military Habit Organization Army Bravery Internals Officers Superiority

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

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