Exterior Quotes - Page 5

• Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.

  Jennifer Beals

  Mistake, Winning, Battle

  Interview with Canadian Press, February 17, 2011.

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• A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.

  Gloria Estefan

  Reflection, Peace And Happiness, Internal Peace

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• It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Heart, Numbers, Soul

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• They'll realize that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking! Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan!

  Kelis

  Pain, Heart, Realizing

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• There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Clothes, Bags

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

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• If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

  Alain de Botton

  Baby, Disappointment, Children

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• Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Way, Architecture

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

  Murray Kempton

  Heart, Men, Trying

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• Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you know? I'm so interior. I always forget there's such a thing as an exterior wide shot, where you can see where someone is. As opposed to just: how can we show what this person is thinking, in an abstract way that is felt?

  Miranda July

  Character, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

  James Hollis

  World, Faces, Refuse

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• Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Real, Jewels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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• Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Editing, People, Action

  Source: screenrant.com

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• But remember, for all your adult life you'll be a woman. And how you live your life as a woman, all by yourself before God, is what makes the real you. Nothing on the exterior can touch or change that precious inner sanctuary -- your heart, His dwelling place -- unless you let it. And God, who loves you very much, has tailor made all your outer life -- your circumstances, your relationships -- to pressure you into becoming that beautiful woman He's planned for you to be.

  Anne Ortlund

  Beautiful, Real, Love You

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• Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.

  Earl Nightingale

  Believe, Force, Circumstances

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• I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was.... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don't think pop artists feel that way.

  Jim Dine

  Artist, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• There is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and this occurs because man's thirst, as he strives and seeks after God, is quenched as he finds repose in the revealed form of the Son.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Eye, Son, Men

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.190, A&C Black

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• Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.

  Thomas Merton

  Light, Silence, Soul

  "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1956.

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• I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.

  David Bezmozgis

  Thinking, Tough, Circumstances

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.

  Ken Wilber

  Country, Zero, Years

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

  Barry Lopez

  Character, Land, Mind

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• A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

  Gottfried Bohm

  Space, Dignity, Building

  Gottfried Böhm, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1986). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm”

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• nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.

  Hannah More

  Mistake, Thinking, Practice

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.365

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• Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?

  John Paul Caponigro

  Mirrors, Long, Gestalt

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• Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

  David Corbett

  Character, Events, Stories

  David Corbett (2013). “The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV”, p.41, Penguin

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• Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Buttons, Cameras

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