#inside

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#cannot #control #goes #i #i can

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#box #create #did #done #esteem

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads. ↗

— David Frum

#decisions #door #go #heads #inside

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. ↗

— John Frusciante

#being #better #clearer #doing #feel

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#house #inside #lived #parents #pillows

There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail. ↗

— Brad Garrett

#black #inside #just #make #man

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#creatures #efficacy #forgot #fruitful #god

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#after #armed #defeat #desperate #exile

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways. ↗

— Gary Larson

#around #different #different ways #get #head