Surroundings Quotes - Page 7

• It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

  Hugo Weaving

  Real, People, Pleasure

  "Hugo Weaving on being Elrond, The Matrix's evil AI, and a kidnapper convict". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2012.

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

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Should, Stoops

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• The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Science, Discovery

  "The Creative Process". Scientific American 199:59, September 1958.

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• Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.

  Joe Shuster

  Science, Artist, Superhero

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• Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

  Ted Turner

  Grandchildren, Impact, Today

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• There’s more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

  Alex Steffen

  Work, Home, Decision

  "On green building, urban development, and reviving rural America". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. September 1, 2005.

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• No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings.

  Tim McCarthy

  Meditation, Mind, Technique

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• Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  People, Actors, Scene

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Home, Eye

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

  John Maynard Keynes

  Characteristics, Mankind

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  T. J. Jagodowski

  Real, Environment, Happenings

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• I LOVE THE COMEDY CLUBS AND THE CLOSENESS OF THE CROWD. HOWEVER THE MORE YA DO THE BIG ROOMS THEY START TO BECOME YOUR HOME AS WELL AND YOU ADJUST TO THE SURROUNDINGS. I LOVE THEM BOTH. I MISS THE CLUBS BUT THATS WHAT YA WORK FOR TO DO THE BIG ROOMS!

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Home, Missing, Crowds

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mother, Children, Sleep

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• Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

  "Bill Bailey: Part Troll", 2004.

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• When seen up close, dangers are controllable: when you begin to climb the mountain of your dreams, pay attention to the surroundings. There are cliffs, of course. There are almost imperceptible cracks in the mountain rock. There are stones so polished by storms that they have become as slippery as ice. But if you know where you are placing each footstep, you will notice the traps and how to get around them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

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• Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.

  Frederick Douglass

  Mean, Men, Self

  "Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn".

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• For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fashion, Heirs, Belief

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Music, Giving, People

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• The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.

  Emile Durkheim

  Passion, Men, Meditation

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered

  Franz Boas

  People, Migration, Study

  Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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• Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

  Duane Elgin

  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

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• 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.

  Emmanuel Mounier

  Men, Mind, Constellations

  Emmanuel Mounier (2013). “Personalism”, p.20, Read Books Ltd

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• Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Strong, Real

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  "Propaganda".

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• Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five percent of the criminals transported from England to Australia and other penal colonies, became good and useful citizens in a new world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Australia, People, World

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