Surround Quotes - Page 34

• Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

  Andrew Stanton

  People, Criticism, Way

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• I'd rather be the bloke laughing at other people. I don't need to make people laugh. I surround myself with funny people. I laugh all the time.

  Jennifer Garner

  People, Laughing, Needs

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• I enjoy working with people. That seems simplistic, but whenever I'm distressed, angry, and want to feel like something can be done about something, it feels better when you surround yourself with people.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Feel Better, People, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

  James Redfield

  Firsts, Causes, Mysterious

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• I surround myself with love and look forward to being in love.

  Jessica Simpson

  Being In Love, Looks

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

  Russell Simmons

  Art, Noise, Form

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert that these are perceptual illusions ... Each of us lives within the universe - the prison of his own brain.

  Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

  Real, Believe, Brain

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• There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Believe, Miracle

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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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