Internals Quotes - Page 8

• I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

  Robert Pozen

  Ohio, Principles, Needs

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• Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Europe, Would Be, Economy

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• Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress.

  Geoff Davis

  Winning, Osama Bin Laden, Propaganda

  "House Republicans Respond to Murtha". Geoff Davis' remarks during news conference by House Republicans at the United States Capitol in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2005.

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• Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, May, Infinite

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• I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Skills, Want, Different

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

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• It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the business cycle, as we know it, would not exist.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Business, Common Sense, Facts

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• The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.

  Richard Levins

  Science, Evolution, External Forces

  Richard Levins, Richard C. Lewontin (1985). “The Dialectical Biologist”, p.89, Harvard University Press

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• We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Political, Prison, Exile

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• The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have been subjected to human interference and control. One of these is man himself (medicine and public health). The other is land (agriculture and coservation). The effort to control the health of land has not been very successful.

  Aldo Leopold

  Successful, Men, Self

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.229, Library of America

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• It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.

  David Cone

  Baseball, Thinking, Player

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• The characters I write about are very internal.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, Character

  "Q&A With Author Michael Connelly". Interview with Austin O'Connor, www.aarp.org. March 9, 2011.

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• If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

  David E. Kelley

  People, Rooms, Interviews

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• Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Struggle, Character, Thinking

  "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Drama, Grief, Loss

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• I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

  Michael Rooker

  Drama, School, Makeup

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Civilization, Looks, Ifs

  "Phylicia Rashad Talks Good Deeds and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

  Sonja Sohn

  Careers, Actors, Gains

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• We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Fields

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• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  Manmohan Singh

  Government, People, Entrepreneur

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• Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

  Regina Spektor

  Cities, Space, Giants

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

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• In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

  Chris Terrio

  Debate, Film, Courses

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• I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Character, Editors, Trying

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.

  Amy Waldman

  Thinking, People, Confusion

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• Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Philosophy, Issues

  "'Art of Learning' isn't just black and white". Interview with Tracey Wong Briggs, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 17, 2007.

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• In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Focus, Mind

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