If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

The inner confidence in knowing who you are, believing in your dreams, and following your heart, is what make you radiate from within.

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.

Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.

When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious packages at steel plants or in the inner city.

I like feeling like I could probably fail, because it makes me find a part of myself that I didn't really know: an inner fighter in me.

My dad didn't graduate high school. My mom is a high school graduate. My mom is a factory worker. My dad owned a bar in the inner city.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

I didn't have a brown-skinned superhero growing up who wore cornrows and who reflected the inner city where I come from in Philadelphia.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive.

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn to the audience and sing.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.

The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

Coming from the inner city of Cleveland and growing up you never expected a street to be named after you or anything. It's a special honor.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

There has always been an inner self-motivation for me. Mine goes back to my United days of us against the world and proving everyone wrong.

Your thoughts greatly influence how you feel and behave. In fact, your inner monologue has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

My inner strength comes from my friends. I have a very close group of friends and family, and we all help each other through our dark times.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my hand at different things.

Once, I tried to channel my inner Pocahontas and wore a lot of Navajo prints, a lot of beige, fringe, and suede... I wish I hadn't done that.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for all of us - if we let them do it.

I've seen that, over the centuries, India has still got its passion and its soul. Wherever you go, people have such inner strength and beauty.

Viral infections, such as mumps, rubella and meningitis, cause inflammation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in permanent damage.

I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!

In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless people, without inner voices, thoughts in their heads.

I was almost giving up because the chemo was so intense and aggressive that there were moments I had to find the inner strength within myself.

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