Top 572 Surroundings Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.
If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.
I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
I grew up in Newquay and lived close to the ocean for a few years in New Zealand, too. I'm instinctively happy in those surroundings.
It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
A lot of people tell me that on screen you're jumping and bouncing around with joy, but I take too much time to open up in newer surroundings.
You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.
I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.
New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time
That's half of what we do our daily lives - we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it entertaining, and we are entertainers.
A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.
I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.
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.
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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.
When surroundings change, we should also change how we make money.
My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.
A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
I feel very strongly we are spiritual beings in a physical body, and we should make our surroundings as beautiful and soulful as possible.
The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with its surroundings ... and there is no trouble. This is what we mean by naturalness.
Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.
You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
For all teenagers, the Internet offers a periscope to the outside world, but it's particularly important for students who are unable to find themselves represented and understood in their immediate surroundings.
Don't let your upbringing, your surroundings, whatever situation you are living in, don't let those stop you from being the greatest you that you can be.
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.
I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with a physical relationship with my surroundings, their weight, texture, density, transparency, and so forth.
However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.
The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.
If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.
Some people don't have the right surroundings to help get them through an experimental time or a tough time.
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.
The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.
Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.
Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.
I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.
The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
Too many people think life is a yellow brick road. We learned that hardships make you better and that you have to adapt to your surroundings. And then you understand.
Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.
You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.
All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.
Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
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.
Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.
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.
The problem with airports is that we go there when we need to catch a plane - and because it's so difficult to find the way to the gate, we tend not to look around at our surroundings.
The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
