Top 252 External Quotes

Not every great idea needs to be Campbell-generated. It

Not every great idea needs to be Campbell-generated. It’s clear that partners and vendors and other external sources will generate innovative ideas for us.
Denise Morrison
I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don’t blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don’t have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
Jack Canfield
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another’s sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
Saint Basil
Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that’s not the same thing as wisdom.
Joshua Foer
I would like free movement within the E.U. as a result of us protecting external borders.
Matteo Salvini
I wish I wasn’t so in love, wasn’t so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that – its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
Edan Lepucki
I think you can develop your ability to be clutch, if that’s the word that you will use, your ability to focus and to be able to block out all the external stuff.
Adam Vinatieri
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear.
Max Heindel
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Antoine Rivarol
The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder.
Lawrence Hargrave
A lot of corporations now have venture arms that are investing in young entrepreneurs or building programs within so you can disrupt yourself internally instead of looking to those external factors.
Troy Carter
The only place you can really find the confidence and the love for yourself is within you, so that has to be what carries you: not all of these external things.
Rumer Willis
In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don’t believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.
Roberto Baggio
You then get into a period a few years ago, where a lot of external factors that we didn’t have anything to do with did hit, and some of them at the same time… devaluations, weak economies, you name it, in various parts of the world.
Jim Cantalupo
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.
Johannes P. Muller
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
Roman Jakobson
I can’t worry about external factors, I have to focus on myself.
Shinji Kagawa
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don’t see the point in doing that.
Elizabeth Kostova
Happiness can’t start with external stuff, whether that’s money or success or your body.
Amy Schumer
A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
When I was doing my bachelors from Delhi University, India experienced its first major external financing and currency crisis in 1990-91. This inspired me to pursue graduate work in economics and was the foundation for my interest in international finance.
Gita Gopinath
The fact is external feminine beauty is highly valued, and we are constantly given the message that a slamming body is the most valuable thing a woman can possess.
Amanda de Cadenet
I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.
Luis Figo
We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
‘Captives’ was a deliberate bridging exercise, an attempt to use detailed knowledge of what Britain was like on the inside, to reach a deeper, more variegated understanding of how its peoples experienced external adventures and aggression over a quarter of a millennium in four continents.
Linda Colley
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
William Inge
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.
Daniel Levitin
The only way I can meet expectations of myself and what I think I am capable of is to make sure my game is in order and I am doing things that allow me to perform at my best, to make sure my training is good, to make sure I am focused on watching the ball and not worried about the external expectations.
Jos Buttler
Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn’t require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.
Naval Ravikant
An intensification of trade or geopolitical tensions – with negative repercussions for global growth and risk appetite – could affect economies that are highly dependent on foreign demand or external financing.
Gita Gopinath
Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country

Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.
Peter Bofinger
Obstruction can be caused by so many factors – perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course, you’ve got to push through it all if you’re to write, and if you don’t, or can’t, you’re sunk.
Claire Messud
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics – and our external ones too – the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are – as women and as mothers.
Arianna Huffington
A man walks on through life – with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns ’round. The word ‘repentance’ means ‘turning ’round.’ He repents and believes and is saved.
Peter Marshall
Fashion tells about who you are from external point of view.
Suga
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
Michael Steinhardt
A Europe without internal borders can only exist if it has functioning external borders.
Sebastian Kurz
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.
S. Jay Olshansky
The challenges both internal and external to the NCAA present a unique opportunity to help shape the landscape for hundreds of thousands of young men and women.
Oliver Luck
Usually, we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind – blown here and there by external circumstances.
Kelsang Gyatso
Whatever the trend in exchange rates or whatever the external factors, a manufacturing company is always faced with the mission of transforming itself into a company that can produce higher value-added to absorb the increase in the cost of living in the country it’s operating in.
Fujio Mitarai
My favorite Swamp Thing stories have always been about a man wrestling with monsters both internal and external.
Scott Snyder
I need to look back on my poetic ventures, make sense of them as a whole, and move forward… and to experiment without external demands.
Tony Harrison
Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
J. D. Hayworth
Two famous happy warriors – Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher – knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.
Monica Crowley
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
Daisaku Ikeda
Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to be a logical extension of my Uncle Alex, Uncle Zoli, and my father, in that order.
Michael Korda
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
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace – or at least a genuine peace – the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky
The Lionsgate deal came at an opportune time. It allows us to get our projects financed and create long-form content without needing to be reliant on brand deals or crowdsourcing for external financing.
Freddie Wong