Surround Quotes - Page 27

• I can say with confidence that I never bought into the hype, and I made sure that the people around me didn't buy into the hype, and I did not surround myself with people who fed me the hype. And I'm glad of that as well.

  Barack Obama

  Hype, People, Made

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail: The Tale of the Three Gates is a look at humankind's relationship to the elements which surround them. Oftentimes, these elements encroach on them in a way that is not normal.

  Evan Jacobs

  Holy Grail, Looks, Elements

  Source: xstuckinthepastx.blogspot.com

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• I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving, I was going to eat the next day. I came to Hollywood wanting a career that had longevity, and I wasn't afraid to take risks because I had a dollar in the bank. I wasn't driven by money as much as I was driven by making a successful transition. And I was smart enough to know that I certainly didn't have all the answers and I needed to surround myself with smart people and be willing to take risks and be willing to fail.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Smart, Successful, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.

  Paul Washer

  Wise, Fighting, Pride

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• I guess working in the legitimate industry, the best thing you can take away from it is acceptance of the incompetence that often surrounds you. No, that sounds horrible. The most important thing, I guess, is the fact that working in the legitimate industry, what I see all too often is people trying to interpret the wishes of the audience, which with today's technology, is all too easy to measure empirically.

  Dan Harmon

  Acceptance, Technology, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Smart, People, Smart People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Giving, Lucky

  Source: uproxx.com

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• One of the big problems in this field is that there's so much mystification that surrounds talk of the Shari'a, whether its saying that Islam is all about peace or whether its people saying that Islam is all about Jihad and all about suicide bombs. People will make statements which don't seem to be backed up by any sort of historical context.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Suicide, People, Historical

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore not knowing quite how to put that on screen.

  John Hurt

  Book, Knowing, People

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

  Chris Colfer

  Support You, People, Way

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• I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into peoples minds better than we Liberals.

  Charles Trevelyan

  Party, Thinking, Evil

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• We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Silly, Talking, People

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• I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Mar 01, 2017

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• Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Book, Reading, Lobster

  "The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club". Book by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1928.

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• To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Generations, Cost, Next

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• Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Dark, Clouds

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• My goal is to encourage people to see the possibilities that life holds. So many great things can happen in life, if we can find our own way of doing things, and believe in ourselves, no matter what challenges surround you.

  Jim Abbott

  Believe, Goal, People

  "Jim Abbott - The Halos Heaven Interview". Interview with Rev Halofan, www.halosheaven.com. February 14, 2007.

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• If the Sunni and Shia, or those nations that surround Saudi Arabia and those nations that gather around Tehran or Iran fight each other, that is the trigger that will bring about the War of Armageddon.

  Louis Farrakhan

  War, Fighting, Iran

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Body, Action

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1208, Vintage

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• She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.

  Jenny Downham

  Teeth, Taste, Metals

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• Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Simple, Soul, Naked

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.107, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Uplifting, Mind, Input

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• They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Jurassic Park, Situation

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit.

  Joel Brown

  Life, Sky, People

  Twitter post from Mar 16, 2017

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• I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.

  Rick Nielsen

  Player, Ideas, Band

  Source: www.avclub.com

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