External Influences Quotes

• The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Self, Sea

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

  Brian Tracy

  Smell, Brain, Influence

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• Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.

  Nikola Tesla

  Wheels, Engines, Universe

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• He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Courage, Passion

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.304

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• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  W. Clement Stone

  Gratitude, Attitude, Freedom

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• Judo should be free as art and science from any external influences, political, national, racial, and financial or any other organized interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of Humanity.

  Kano Jigoro

  Art, Political, Humanity

  Budokwai Bulletin, April 1947.

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• Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Distance, Spheres

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.593, Simon and Schuster

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• When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Order, Bird

  "A Dreary Story". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

  Robin Cook

  Illustration, Perfect, Way

  2001 Speech to the Social Market Foundation, London, 19 Apr.

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• It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

  Lata Mangeshkar

  Singers, Influence, Made

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• Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Movement, Sometimes, Influence

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• 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.

  James Joyce

  Men, Race, Illustration

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2179, Delphi Classics

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• He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.

  Maimonides

  Men, Thinking, Opposites

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.269, Courier Corporation

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• The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

  Matt Ridley

  Lying, Behaviour, Gaps

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• Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Self, Play, Realization

  Roberto Assagioli (2000). “Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings”, Synthesis Center

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• If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which this influence is transmitted. A religious or spiritual belief that involves an invisible undetectable force that nonetheless influences human actions and behavior or that of the world itself produces a situation in which a believer has no choice but to have faith and abandon logic--or simply not care.

  Lisa Randall

  Spiritual, Religious, Choices

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