Exterior Quotes - Page 7

• Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Fall, Taken

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.33

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

  Paullina Simons

  Book, Heart, Thinking

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• Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

  Christian D. Larson

  Destiny, Thinking, Maps

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.72, The Floating Press

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• We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Reality, Justice, Mind

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• Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Memories, Men, Personality

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• There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Self, Perfect

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1957). “On the Truth of the Catholic Faith. Summa Contra Gentiles”

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• I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Self, People, Imagination

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• I began to hear what I was being taught about God, by the priest and my parish, and my exterior teaching did not coincide, did not match up, with my interior reality. And as they were teaching me about that God I was thinking: Who are they talking about? This was not how I experienced God. I gradually began to move away from the God of organized religion.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Teaching, Reality

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• What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pay, Matter, Attention

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• I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out.

  William Styron

  Blessed, Thinking, Games

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• You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

  Ian Kelsey

  Superficial, Shallow, Deep Down

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• Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is that they have in their gut, but nobody goes around wearing that as their outmost exterior, all the time.

  Emmy Rossum

  Fire, Stuff, Tragic

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.

  Edouard Boubat

  Morning, Pain, Flower

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• I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.

  Harriet Walter

  Self, People, Actors

  "Life's looking up, Dame Harriet". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

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• Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fashion, Art, Real

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