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Quotes About Surroundings

It's always hard to analyze the effect of your nationality and your surroundings or anything like that. I think in some ways we failed to become the textbook British band, but we kind of turned into something else - and it wasn't even intentional.
~ Ron Mael
As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
~ James E. Faust
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.
~ Robert Wilson
Growing up, I started to realize I was surrounded by people who were passionately alive. Seventh Street felt raw, but I found it incredibly theatrical.
~ Josh Pais
What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Think, for example, of the words which you perhaps utter in this space of time. They are no longer part of this language. And in different surroundings the institution of money doesn't exist either.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Power of Context is an environmental argument. It says that behavior is a function of social context.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are. Those three things - autonomy, complexity and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine to five. It's whether our work fulfills us.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
They had to appreciate the idea that the values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
All that you are is all around you.
~ Stephen Richards
People blame their failures on past birth, destiny, surroundings, and rarely to self in the order of their evolved mental state. The converse is rather more true for the successful people.
~ Sandeep Sahajpal
Lo que me rodeaba no me interesaba. Todo lo que me interesaba estaba hecho de palabras.
~ Amos Oz
Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
~ Amy Tan
other, as he went around the house to
~ Sandra Brown
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
~ Sarah Dessen
Smith wiped grass and dirt from his butt and scowled at their surroundings as though they hadn't just escaped a fascist clusterfuckturducken of epic scale and infinite suckage.
~ John Birmingham
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.
~ Luther Burbank
Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
~ Amy Tan
I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.
~ Anthony Kiedis
What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.
~ Berenice Abbott
Before focusing on whatever process, realize the surroundings and people since such awareness educates and results in precisely as your desires.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Your character and the way of talking show your surroundings what type of people you match.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Your character and way of talking show your surroundings what type of people you match.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
reason, by a weariness that made everything around
~ Elena Ferrante