External Factors Quotes

Man is a child of his environment.

To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.

Nobody knows the pulse of the audience. By the grace of God, things are working for me.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

You need lucky breaks to be successful.

So many things influence me in one way or another. Some might be surprising, but that's OK.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

I don't control the political world.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

I play basketball. I can't control the media, the way I play. I can't control all of it.

There were a lot of distractions in Baltimore, and I think they were a problem for me.

The liberal fiscal spending of the 2004-08 period was made possible both by rising government revenues and national income growth and by relative comfort on the external side. After 2009, these pillars of growth began to wobble. By 2012, they were shaking.

First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

You give anybody a billion dollars, and of course they are passionate. Passion is one of those things like willpower in that there's 'magical thinking' about it. You've got to be careful about 'magical thinking.'

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

Anybody who is successful and does not use the word “luck” is a liar.