Surround Quotes - Page 32

• Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

  Judith Light

  Gay, Men, Race

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• The Proverbs 31 woman is a star not because of what she does but how she does it—with valor. So do your thing. If it’s refurbishing old furniture—do it with valor. If it’s keeping up with your two-year-old—do it with valor. If it’s fighting against human trafficking . . . leading a company . . . or getting other people to do your work for you—do it with valor. Take risks. Work hard. Make mistakes. Get up the next morning. And surround yourself with people who will cheer you on.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Morning, Stars, Cheer

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.95, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Rather than beautifying one’s own creation, make better the environment that surrounds it.

  Yugo Nakamura

  Environment, Creation

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• A lot of people worry about
  the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings.
  I feel it's more a matter
  of people treating the things that surround them
  with respect.

  Albert Hadley

  Worry, People, Tears

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• If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ignorance, Bridges, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.72, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Surround yourself with brilliance.

  Peter Gabriel

  Surround Yourself, Brilliance

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• Choose your team carefully. So much of your success is due to the people who you surround yourself with. Your friends, your family, and the people that you work with -- they all play an important role in inspiring you and supporting you and giving you stability. These are the people in your life who will be honest with you.

  Tom Ford

  Team, Play, People

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• Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of course that bears fruit, but no one wants to shoulder part of the blame. A lot of people here can't see around their own family's history. They don't want to see that where they come from and the people they surround themselves with might have played a role in all this. This is all part of our national myth about the individual. We think that a lack of success comes from the individual not working hard enough. A lot of people in this country really believe that.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we want to understand the distinctive constitution of Europe, we must go back to its religious foundations. For the moral beliefs which Christianity fostered still underpin civil society in Europe, the institutions that surround us.

  Larry Siedentop

  Religious, Europe, Foundation

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• The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.

  Seth Godin

  People, Peers, Way

  "The easiest way to thrive as an outlier". sethgodin.typepad.com. October 1, 2012.

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• It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Difficulty, Knows

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees.

  Tom Gegax

  Jobs, Self, People

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• You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Friendship, Success, Lonely

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• Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Live Life, Sadness, Opportunity

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• Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you’ll wake up to find yourself doing the same.

  Justin Kan

  People, Finding Yourself, Wake Up

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• Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Reality, Turns

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• If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun."

  Bob Odenkirk

  Fun, Darkness, Ifs

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.

  Marc Webb

  Fun, People, Creative

  Source: screenrant.com

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• A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.

  Buck Owens

  Song, People, Guy

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• If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Sorrow, Live For Today, Lord's Supper

  Erwin W. Lutzer “The Doctrines That Divide: A Fresh Look at the Historic Doctrines That Separate Christians”, Kregel Publications

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• Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

  Frederick Douglass

  Dream, Dog, Comfort

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.297, Library of America

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• To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.

  Confucius

  Stars, Administration, Excellent

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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• What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Past, Magic, Needs

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• Life a life of Spiritual Adventure. Much like a wild goose the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it's like to pursue the Spirit's leading through life.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Adventure, Thinking

  Mark Batterson (2009). “Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• I surround myself with loyalists and people that I would die for. I just would rather die than make bad stuff for people because I'm a terrible dishwasher and a terrible lover and a terrible pet owner.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Pet, Stuff

  "Dan Harmon Talks RICK AND MORTY, Working for Adult Swim, Animation vs Live-Action, COMMUNITY, and Much More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 27, 2013.

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