Outside World Quotes:

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

- Anna Lee

topic: Positive, Happiness, Smile, Keep Smiling, Just Keep Smiling

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Sister, Sweet, Voice, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. Understanding that everything that comes to you is what you are. Everything from friends to boyfriends to the job you get - it's all a direct reflection of what you are on the inside.

- Mary J. Blige

topic: Jobs, Reflection, Inner Peace, Outside World

There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.

- David Sedaris

topic: Car, World, Humans, Outside World

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

- Bette Davis

source: "The Added Dimension: Celebrating the Opportunities, Rewards, and Challenges of the Add Experience". Book by Kate Kelly, p. 128, July 23, 1998.

topic: Children, Believe, Home, Outside World, Concrete Jungle

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: World, Conflict, Outside World

I like out, I like the outside world.

- Martin Freeman

topic: World, Outside World

But true individuality is more about being in tune with who you truly are, whether you're expressing yourself physically, mentally, or spiritually; individuality arises from living without fear of what other might think or say about you and without being swayed by their opinions, leaving you free to lead life without caring about judgments made by the outside world.

- Kat Von D

topic: Caring, Thinking, Leaving, Outside World

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Glasses, Worry, Dining, Outside World

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

topic: Thinking, Long, World, Outside World

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently. (Steve Jobs)

- Walter Isaacson

source: Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

topic: Jobs, Crazy, Artist, Outside World, Going Crazy

Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Blue, Views, Sky, Outside World, Despite

Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Different Experiences, People, Defense, Outside World, Irrevocable

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

- Adriana Trigiani

source: Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel”, p.37, Harper Collins

topic: Blood, People, World, Outside World, Blood Relatives

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.

- Louis Althusser

source: Louis Althusser, François Matheron, Olivier Corpet (2006). “Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87”, p.268, Verso

topic: Philosophy, World, Way, Outside World, Caught Up

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

- Nikola Tesla

source: Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

topic: Perception, World, Minutes, Intervening, Outside World

I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.

- Darren Hayes

topic: School, Kids, Years, Outside World

I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.

- Chris Offutt

source: Chris Offutt (2003). “The Same River Twice: A Memoir”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

topic: Home, Long, World, Outside World

Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?' 'Please,' Billy said. 'That would be a bit self-hating, wouldn't it?' 'Yeah, but you pass. You're like, you're in deep cover,' Leon said. 'You can sneak out of the nerd ghetto and hide the badge and bring back food and clothes and word of the outside world.

- China Mieville

topic: Hate, Ghetto, Clothes, Leon, Outside World

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

- Seth Godin

topic: Dream, Needs, World, Outside World

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.

- Jimmy Breslin

topic: New York, Interesting, World, Outside World

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Inspiring, Stars, Men, Outside World

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

source: Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

topic: Congratulations, Air, Victory, Outside World

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

topic: Courage, Be Who You Are, World, Outside World, Feats

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

- Charlotte Gray

topic: Sister, Wise, School, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Sisterhood

They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

- Alexandra Bracken

topic: Winning, Thinking, Evil, Outside World

Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Two, World, Bliss, Outside World

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.16, Random House

topic: Outside World, Big Houses

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

- Booker T. Washington

topic: Book, People, Soul, Outside World

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

- Jonah Lehrer

topic: Reality, People, Important, Outside World

You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Children, Men, Long, Outside World, Shopkeepers

I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.

- Markus Zusak

topic: Stars, Eye, Two, Outside World, No Anger

And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.

- Patrick Süskind

topic: Hate, Eye, Self, Outside World, Flooding

I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else

- Mark Haddon

topic: Father, Two, White, Outside World, White Noise

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

- Hugh Prather

topic: World, Description, Inadequacy, Outside World

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.

- Italo Calvino

topic: Dream, Distance, Book, Outside World

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

- Kurt Cobain

topic: Stars, Rocks, Mail, Outside World

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: World, Telephones, Outside World

The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: World, Without You, Interest, Outside World

And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.

- James Herriot

source: James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.313, Pan Macmillan

topic: Lonely, Father, Simple, Outside World, Yorkshire

When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

- Lance Loud

topic: Reading, Sick, Parent, Outside World

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

- Aaron Siskind

topic: Successful, World, Resolve, Outside World

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

- Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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

topic: Dirty, Mind, World, Landmines, Outside World

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

- Margaret Mahy

topic: Thinking, Games, Ideas, Outside World

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

- Jeremy Jackson

source: "Jeremy Jackson Up Close and Personal From Hollywood to Humble". Interview with Alexandra Holzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

topic: Trying, World, Life Is, Outside World

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

- Stephen LaBerge

topic: Interesting, Childhood, Understanding, Inner World, Outside World

One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

- Greg Mortenson

source: "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

topic: Children, Hate, War, Outside World

To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity...

- Eli Siegel

topic: Secret, World, Stuff, Outside World

We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.

- Carly Simon

topic: Thinking, World, Opinion, Outside World, Small Parts

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

- Bill Gates

topic: Outside World, Political Engagement, Preventing