Internal Perspective Quotes

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

It's a very strange experience to watch yourself in a movie anyway. I most frequently don't do it, but if I was going to do it, I would do it in a private way, not at a public screening at a film festival, which is just an overwhelming experience.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

Maybe from the outside, Belgium looks complicated to understand, but from the inside, actually, every country is complicated.

Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around

I don't feel like a wealthy person. Other people think of me as a wealthy person, but I don't. I feel the same as when I was a fifth-year associate trying to make partner at Lehman Brothers. I haven't changed.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

Inner reality is certainly more important than the outer reality.

I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what mine look like at all. My sense of them comes from the inside. They remain, by necessity, physically vague in my mind.

The message is clear. It is not what is happening 'out there.' It is what is happening between your ears. It's your attitude that counts.

Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

I really admire people who concern themselves more with how they perceive the world rather than how the world perceives them. I think, as an artist, it's very important to do that. You can limit yourself a lot if you spend too much time caring about what people think of you.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.

We have no outside point of view. We are nature too.

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.