Surroundings Quotes

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my 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.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

When you success you have to be very smart and be extra focused and protect your surroundings.

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.

Miracles begin within us and then affect our surroundings.

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.

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, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I'm painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

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, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible and it has become too powerful, too pushy and too dangerous to be left on its own.

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.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.

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.

Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

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.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

If you can't change your surroundings, change your hair color.

Through our perceptual systems, we represent our surroundings, aiming to do so accurately, where the aiming is functional or teleological, rather than intentional. And the same goes for our functional beliefs. Through our judgments, however, we do intentionally, even consciously, attempt to get it right.

Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.