quotes about Surroundings
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We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.
-- Amber Valletta -
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
-- Christina Rossetti -
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.
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Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.
-- Damien Hirst -
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Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
-- David AdjayeSource : "A Sense of Place". Interview with Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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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 MounierSource : Emmanuel Mounier (2013). “Personalism”, p.20, Read Books Ltd
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I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst -
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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 -
With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.
-- Gary Snyder -
An airport carpet can tell you everything about its surroundings!
-- George PendleSource : Source: www.cnn.com
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You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
-- Gordon LightfootSource : "The World’s Most Beautiful College Dorms" by Claire Cottrell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.
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Art should become as one with its surroundings.
-- Isamu Noguchi -
You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.
-- Joel S. GoldsmithSource : Joel S. Goldsmith (2013). “The Foundation of Mysticism”, p.31, BookBaby
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I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
-- Jose Ortega y GassetSource : Meditaciones del Quijote "Lector" (1914)
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The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
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I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.
-- Leona Lewis -
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
-- Lucian Freud -
I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.
-- Matt Sharp -
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 -
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If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
-- Maya Lin -
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 -
Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
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 -
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I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.
-- River PhoenixSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.
-- Swizz Beatz -
We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
-- T-Pain -
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
-- T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings -
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Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.
-- T. J. Jagodowski -
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 -
New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time
-- Gottfried BohmSource : Gottfried Böhm, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1986). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm”
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My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.
-- Josh McDermittSource : "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
-- William Henry O'Connell -
A new environment encourages us to be more mindful and present, as we're more likely to notice and appreciate new surroundings.
-- Michael KlimSource : Source: www.smh.com.au
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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 -
Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.
-- T. J. Jagodowski -