Surround Quotes - Page 25

• I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it.

  Win Butler

  Song, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What I've learned over the years is it's so much better to surround yourself with real talent and hire real chefs. I learned more from the chefs I have working for me than you could ever imagine. There's nothing wrong with being able to create opportunities for people, and you don't have to do everything, take credit for everything, and have all the weight be on your shoulders.

  Michael Mina

  Real, Opportunity, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just try to surround myself with good, positive supportive people who are trying to make the world better.

  Tyler Oakley

  People, Supportive, Trying

  Source: theodysseyonline.com

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• I try to surround myself with a good support system. Whether that's other creators or my family or my friends, or even my viewers, who encourage me just as much as I might encourage them and they're just as much a part of my life as they let me be a part of theirs.

  Tyler Oakley

  Support Systems, Trying, Might

  Source: theodysseyonline.com

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• I'm a lucky, lucky man. I mean, the people I surround myself with are so inspiration. They're so motivational and they're so dynamic and positive. You really can't stop that positive force when everything and everyone around you is so positive.

  Ted Nugent

  Inspiration, Mean, Men

  Source: hardrockhaven.net

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• Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Men, Errors

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.406, Cambridge University Press

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• To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Dream, Strong

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• The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.

  Lee Johnson

  Emotional, People, Quality

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• It took me a really long time to decide who I want my circle to be and who I want to surround myself with. Once you make that choice, that is where I feel like I have built my strength. This is my life choice. These are the people that make me feel good about me, and that I love and adore and will do anything for.

  Katie Aselton

  Circles, Long, People

  "Katie Aselton and Lake Bell Talk BLACK ROCK, the Challenging Shoot, and Bell Directing Her First Feature IN A WORLD…". Interview, collider.com. May 16, 2013.

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• A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

  Honore de Balzac

  Moving, Knowledge, Men

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• While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.

  George Orwell

  Country, Games, Two

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• Though in midst of life we be
  Snares of death surround us.

  Martin Luther

  Death, Midst, Snares

  Martin Luther (1854). “Martin Luther's Spiritual Songs”, p.80

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• Isn't it curious how completely ignorant we all are of the most important part of our bodily mechanism. It is really criminal. Yet there is no nation in the world that doesnt surround sex with fantastic walls. Of course ours are sillier than any-but not much.

  John Dos Passos

  Sex, Wall, Ignorant

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Giving Up, Ghetto, Self

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• I think anybody who's been a part of a kid's life, you hope that when they go out into the world, that they surround themselves with the right people and don't find themselves in trouble.

  Scooter Braun

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• In all aspects of life, it's always much funner when you surround yourself with people you enjoy being around.

  Rob Dyrdek

  People, Aspects Of Life, Enjoy

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• In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Clothes, Age, Youth

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.75

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• Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

  Marie Corelli

  Spiritual, Sight, Imagination

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• True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Philosophy, Calm, Patient

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• The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Grief, Bravery

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122

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• I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess, but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side - mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.

  Jose Rizal

  Believe, Sides, Speak

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, April 04, 1893.

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• Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should question your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Song, Laughter

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• Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.

  Chris Prentiss

  Believe, People, Trying

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.22, BookBaby

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• [On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

  Josephine de Beauharnais

  Long, Emperor

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• If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares.

  Margarita Engle

  Nightmare, Cruelty, Feels Right

  Margarita Engle (2009). “Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba”, p.158, Macmillan

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