Quotes About Surroundings

By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

I looked around as though unsure of myself, but it was really just a routine check of my surroundings. Adrenaline causes tunnel vision. Experience and a desire to survive ameliorate it. The faces around the tatami radiated amusement, not danger.

Even the humdrum rationality of seeing rather than hallucinating is in the service of the ever-present goal built into our visual systems of knowing our surroundings.

Living things are always to be found in places they can master, surrounded by things and situations that make them vulnerable.

Don't think that it is easier to surround yourself with good healthy people than with bad unhealthy people. It's not. A good, healthy person is an ideal. It requires strength and daring to stand up near such a person. Have some humility. Have some courage. Use your judgment, and protect yourself from too-uncritical compassion and pity.

La felicidad consiste en crear un ambiente propicio alrededor de uno.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

The apple had fallen right next to the crazy tree.

I was, as we all are, a child of my environment.

A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

When you enter a new segment of your day, if you have not made a decision about what you want, you are easily swept up by the influence, or even the confusion, of those who surround you.

Dis wat 'n mens Hollands kan maak. Hierdie water wat soos asem om jou is.

you make your own adventure in life. And I truly believe that if you open your eyes to your surroundings, there's lots of neat stuff to be found practically anywhere on earth.

Qualquer casualidade da luta é erro deles, não nosso. Nós não adotamos a violência, mas não negamos sua existência. Como podemos negá-la, se seus efeitos estão ao nosso redor?

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need do only inner work Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself.… The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings. —CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER, The Timeless Way of Building

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need do only inner work . . . that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself. . . . The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings. —Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building

Self-possession depends on its environment.

In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.

It was perhaps an effect of such surroundings that my mind early acquired a shade of melancholy.

The echolocation clicks of sperm whales are very powerful, allowing detection of prey and other things at longer ranges than vision or other senses can manage underwater.9 Sonar can also be very precise. Dolphins and porpoises with their higher frequency echolocation can build detailed pictures of their surroundings. Sonar