Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
I think that place is a huge part of pretty much any musician's work, in how one responds to an environment, whether… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings. And so Austin is very stimulating. I'm familiar… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is… — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
When your life feels like you are on a sailboat,with no wind to fill your sails,there are still choices.You can drop anchor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Being present is the actor’s job. Being aware of your body, in space, and the emotions that are occurring inside, is essential.… — Sandra Oh Copy Share Image
Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech… — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with… — Andrew Forge Copy Share Image
Theatrically, you are aware of every part of you in acting; every component of your surroundings, including the clothes you wear. Eh...in… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had.… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings… — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to… — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more… — Jim Horning Copy Share Image
I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Tokyo & Kyoto are two of my favorites. I like how Japanese cities live in harmony with their natural surroundings, with gardens… — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
As of late, 'Boyz n the Hood' really impacted me because I grew up in that same neighborhood. It was the first… — Wendy Raquel Robinson Copy Share Image
Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world,… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
