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

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Sé selectivo con tus influencias externas. Tu cerebro multidimensional está influido por todo lo que ves, oyes, lees, hueles, tocas, sientes o dices.

  Brian Tracy

  Olfato, Cerebro, Influencia

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• Cada ser vivo es un motor que funciona en la rueda del universo.

  Nikola Tesla

  Wheels, Engines, Universe

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• El que quiera ser superior a las influencias externas debe primero ser superior a sus propias pasiones.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Courage, Passion

  Samuel Johnson (1825). "Las obras de Samuel Johnson [ed. por F.P. Walesby]", p.304.

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• La esclavitud es la sujeción a influencias externas y a pensamientos y actitudes negativas internas.

  W. Clement Stone

  Gratitud, Actitud, Libertad

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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). "El Tesoro de Nikola Tesla ", 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.

  Antón Chéjov

  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). "Principios de Psicología Fisiológica"

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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.

  Maimónides

  Men, Thinking, Opposites

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

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• La interacción de influencias genéticas y externas hace que mi comportamiento sea impredecible, pero no indeterminado. En el hueco entre esas palabras está la libertad.

  Matt Ridley

  Lying, Behaviour, Gaps

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• La psicosíntesis es un método de desarrollo psicológico y de autorrealización para aquellos que se niegan a seguir siendo esclavos de sus propios fantasmas internos o de influencias externas, que se niegan a someterse pasivamente al juego de fuerzas psicológicas que se desarrolla en su interior y que están decididos a convertirse en los dueños de sus propias vidas.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Yo, Juego, Realización

  Roberto Assagioli (2000). "Psicosíntesis: una colección de escritos básicos", Centro de Síntesis

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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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