Internal Vs External Quotes

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

When it comes to modeling, I always feel like my body is a myth or a story that is told by other people, and no one knows what my body really looks like.

I'm a positive guy, even if I don't smile a lot.

Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.

There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.

When we think about our bodies, we often think about the way they look as opposed to what they accomplish for us every day.

I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.

Good looks should never become a part of your internal character.

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.