Internalizing Quotes:

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

- Henry Cloud

topic: Character, Ability, Grows, Internalizing

Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.

- Paul Hawken

topic: Responsibility, Cost, Venture, Internalizing

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

- John Connolly

source: John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

topic: Reading, Thinking, Views, Internalizing, Day Life

We have to understand there are two parts of our mind, there's the conscious and the subconscious. It's the subconscious that controls our behavior. It's the conscious mind where the intellect is resident. So the conscious mind is understanding information, but it's not internalizing it.

- Bob Proctor

topic: Two, Understanding, Mind, Internalizing, Residents

According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not a plot device to be laughed at, I spent my younger years internalizing and fighting those stereotypes.

- Janet Mock

source: Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

topic: Pain, Fighting, Media, Internalizing, Proclaiming

It was always said you couldn't have two sisters less alike. In a way [princess] Elizabeth was always internalizing everything and [princess] Margaret was always externalizing everything, so that became the basis. The storyline becomes about these two sisters: they're fighting for their position or trying to establish their identity in the world alongside each other and in relation to this establishment which only those two were a part of.

- Vanessa Kirby

topic: Princess, Fighting, Two, Storyline, Internalizing

Don't confuse simple, reasonable honesty with radical silliness. There is no reason to try to articulate blurry feelings or over-explain every detail. The point is to be honest instead of internalizing, not to try to extract juicy confessionals out of everyday life.

- Ann Burton

topic: Honesty, Simple, Feelings, Internalizing, Blurry

Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.

- Wilhelm Reich

topic: Men, Years, Psychics, Mechanization, Internalizing

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

- Paul Krassner

source: "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

topic: Racism, Isms, Sexism, Internalizing, Ageism