Top 572 Surroundings Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.
An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.
New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
I am not a city guy; I like peaceful surroundings and maybe a walk around a lake.
When I look around and see the beautiful people and wonderful surroundings that are now my reality, I know that I have overcome so much.
I am comfortable in myself and my surroundings, so that makes me play stress-free and enjoy being on the ball.
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised and our surroundings.
The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.
Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.
Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.
Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.
I prefer to be in tune with my surroundings and to be aware of things. I like listening to my foot strike and my breathing. It can be quite soothing.
Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
I'm comfortable in my own skin and surroundings. I don't think I get overshadowed by my husband or his personality.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.
If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by such surroundings.
Anytime you get an opportunity to better yourself and escape your surroundings you take advantage of it.
Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'
For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to photograph it afterward.
It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.
Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.
People are going to a place like Pugwash and that whole area to escape from industry, to have the serenity of the surroundings and the beauty.
Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.
It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.
An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
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.
I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.
If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.
As a child, I got bored with my surroundings, so I would be another person for a little while.
Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.
When a successful man goes to pieces, his frustration engulfs the entire surroundings.
Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.
No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings.
Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health.
The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.
Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.
It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.
For me, I like to keep it real simple; I just worry about myself, the waves, and my surroundings.
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.
I want to create a world with objects and surroundings that are human, more romantic, and less sterile.
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.
