Internal Influence Quotes

I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.

Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your desires, your instincts, your drives, your imagination. All these things orchestrate themselves - all these internal activities that are in the invisible domain that we call consciousness actually have very precise physical effects both in our biology, but they also influence our perception of the world.

Influence inside depends on outside loyalty.

For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.

I want people to be able to influence themselves. We convince ourselves, and that allows us to convince others.

Life is shaped from the inside out.

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

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.

The world measures the government of a nation on the basis of its condition in its own country, on how strong their word is in their own country.

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

I was freaking out. I had my first pimple and I was like, what is this? I didn't know what to do with myself. Now it's all gone, but it's so weird, what you put inside of your body.

To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.

It's the inner that produces the outer.