Surroundings Quotes

328 Surroundings quotes by 276 unique authors

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing,… — Swami Vivekananda
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality. — K D Lang
If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer… — Tamae Watanabe
Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in… — Stephen King
I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new… — Chinua Achebe
The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings). — L. Ron Hubbard
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by… — Gerhard Richter
Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings. — Muhammad Iqbal
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise. — Emmeline Pankhurst
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally… — Karl E. Weick
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind… — Malcolm Mclaren
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on… — Ned Beauman
I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go… — Ross Bleckner
Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping… — Ron Conway
Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same. — Jenna Dewan
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings. — Leslie Stephen
The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings. — Anthony Giddens
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like. — Howard Hodgkin
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings,… — Allan Kaprow
In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a… — Eleanor Robson Belmont
The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it. — William Henry O'Connell
Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds minute… — Sue Thoele
Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self? — Christiane Northrup
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the… — Luther Standing Bear
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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