Surroundings quotes

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.
-- Amber Valletta

#Surroundings

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
-- Christina Rossetti

#Men #Self #Surroundings

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Happiness #Surroundings

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.
-- Damien Hirst

#Art #Surroundings #Response

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
-- David Adjaye

#Important #Building #Surroundings

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
-- Ed McMahon

#Caring #Needs #Surroundings

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.
-- Emmanuel Mounier

#Men #Mind #Surroundings

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst

#Surroundings #Suffragists #Unconscious

It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.
-- Franklin Carmichael

#Artist #Thinking #Surroundings

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.
-- Gary Snyder

#Path #Surroundings

An airport carpet can tell you everything about its surroundings!
-- George Pendle

#Airports #Surroundings #Carpet

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Vibes #Surroundings

Art should become as one with its surroundings.
-- Isamu Noguchi

#Life #Art #Surroundings

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.
-- Joel S. Goldsmith

#Consciousness #Surroundings

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset

#Environment #Surroundings #Latter

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Differences #Environment #Surroundings

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.
-- Leona Lewis

#Thinking #Important #Surroundings

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
-- Lucian Freud

#Artist #Surroundings

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.
-- Matt Sharp

#Believe #Influence #Surroundings

A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.
-- Max Lucado

#Christian #Surroundings #Should

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
-- Maya Lin

#Forget #Sensitive #Surroundings

I still feel like the same person, in every way - it is just some of my surroundings have changed and there are lots of new people in my life.
-- Miranda Kerr

#People #Way #Surroundings

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.
-- Muhammad Iqbal

#Surroundings

Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible and it has become too powerful, too pushy and too dangerous to be left on its own.
-- Paul Feyerabend

#Powerful #People #Surroundings

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.
-- River Phoenix

#Quality #Surroundings #Chameleon

You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.
-- Swizz Beatz

#Surroundings #Invest In Yourself

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
-- T-Pain

#Surroundings

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
-- T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

#Home #Surroundings #Autobiography

Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.
-- T. J. Jagodowski

#Real #Environment #Surroundings

Through our perceptual systems, we represent our surroundings, aiming to do so accurately, where the aiming is functional or teleological, rather than intentional. And the same goes for our functional beliefs. Through our judgments, however, we do intentionally, even consciously, attempt to get it right.
-- Ernest Sosa

#Belief #Judgment #Surroundings

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time
-- Gottfried Bohm

#Fit #Building #Surroundings

My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.
-- Josh McDermitt

#Surroundings #Down The Road #Right Now

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
-- William Henry O'Connell

#March #Surroundings #Duty

A new environment encourages us to be more mindful and present, as we're more likely to notice and appreciate new surroundings.
-- Michael Klim

#Appreciate #Environment #Surroundings

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.
-- Rose Tremain

#Real #Research #Surroundings

Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.
-- T. J. Jagodowski

#Real #Environment #Surroundings