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Quotes About Surroundings

In a situation like the Rumble, I'm looking around constantly and keeping my back against a rope as much as possible so I can see what's going on.
~ Dean Ambrose
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
Jerry-5486: "The most apparent thing that I noticed was how most of the people in this study derive their sense of identity and well-being from their immediate surroundings rather than from within themselves, and that's why they broke down—just couldn't stand the pressure—they had nothing within them to hold up against all of this.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment.
~ Philip Zaleski
One has an excellent view of the war from the windows at the Ritz.
~ Philippe Besson
When I visit my village, relatives or even when I am at a film shoot, I try to observe my surroundings and understand the environment.
~ Rajpal Yadav
There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
~ Ivor Novello
I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality.
~ Al Jardine
I find that through all my work, I really get to see and feel energy, health and vitality between people and their surroundings and how they interact with each other.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
gaura despre care incepea sa invete ca nu este exceptia in viata, ci regula. Gaura nu inseamna gol; golul exista in jurul ei.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I found courage in the countryside, in nature. Being alone never frightened me, even at night, provided I was in contact with my surroundings - with the grass underfoot, with the dim shapes of trees and distant mountains. This was what I clung to.
~ A.A. Milne
Take heed of an ox before. an ass behind, and a MONK on all sides
~ Proverb
When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I'm in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around. I just feel comfortable and confident in those surroundings.
~ Lily Collins
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
~ Michael Heizer
The people that you have around you are your biggest influence.
~ RJ Mitte
Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
~ Caleb Deschanel
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
~ Philip Johnson
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
~ Carl Andre
The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.
~ Ralph Linton
A materialist would argue that I'm a product of my circumstances. But I make my own circumstances. If I make a change in my dominant thoughts or motives, a change in my situation and surroundings will soon follow. Through my actions, I attract people and situations to match my mentality. As I am, so I act; and as I act, so I attract.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
in our own hearts we trust for our salvation, in the men that surround us, in the sights that fill our eyes, in the sounds that fill our ears, and in the air that fill our lungs.
~ Joseph Conrad
Jim started, and his answer was full of deference; but the odious and fleshy figure, as though seen for the first time in a revealing moment, fixed itself in his memory for ever as the incarnation of everything vile and base that lurks in the world we love: in our own hearts we trust for our salvation, in the men that surround us, in the sights that fill our eyes, in the sounds that fill our ears, and in the air that fills our lungs.
~ Joseph Conrad
When your mind thinks correctly, when you understand the truth, when the thoughts deposited in your subconscious mind are constructive, harmonious, and peaceful, the magic working power of your subconscious will respond and bring about harmonious conditions, agreeable surroundings, and the best of everything.
~ Joseph Murphy