Surround Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Surround yourself with good people, surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.

  Ali Krieger

  Positivity, People, Challenges

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• In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.

  Christopher Alexander

  World, Patterns, Size

  Christopher Alexander (1977). “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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• My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

  Sonny Perdue

  Inspiring, Leadership, Philosophy

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• It's all about who you surround yourself with. You have to be comfortable with yourself and have friends who accept you for who you are. Also, do something that you're passionate about. When you find out what you're good at and you do it, that gives you confidence.

  Havana Brown

  Giving, Passionate, Accepting

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental cultivation; that the study of Chemistry is profitable, not only inasmuch as it promotes the material interests of mankind, but also because it furnishes us with insight into those wonders of creation which immediately surround us, and with which our existence, life, and development, are most closely connected.

  Justus von Liebig

  Powerful, Mean, Independent

  David M. Knight, Justus von Liebig (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry”, p.1, Taylor & Francis

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• We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the world if those weapons are one day to be eliminated. We will not contemplate any circumstance in which their possession or threatened use is justified. We reject the secrecy and hypocrisy which surrounds the continuing refinement of the technology.

  David Lange

  Technology, Numbers, Hypocrisy

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• You have to dream big and go for it. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and ignore those who try to bring you down. Never give up, no matter what - overcoming obstacles makes you stronger!

  Shannon MacMillan

  Softball, Sports, Dream

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• The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Essence, Answers

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.211, Penguin UK

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• Do you and I believe him (Christ) enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - and maybe in our churches - turn the other way?...For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church in our culture, I want to risk it all. For the sake of my life, my family, and the people who surround me, I want to risk it all.

  David Platt

  Believe, People, Risk

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• The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative effects of others' actions. It is like a set of invisible mirrors that surround individuals, households or firms, reflecting back on them the consequences of their acts. The industrious will reap the benefits of their industry; the frugal the consequences of their frugality; the improvident and the profligate likewise. They receive their due, which is to say they experience justice as a matter of routine.

  Tom Bethell

  Blessing, Mirrors, Reflecting Back

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• If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Lying, Mean

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• You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.

  Dominic Cooper

  Thinking, People, Know Me

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• Surround yourself with good people that keep you grounded, work hard, and be patient.

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson

  Hard Work, People, Patient

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Make sure you surround yourself with positive people that will support you and push you forward and won't drag you down or get in your way.

  Inbar Lavi

  Support You, People, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The best advice bro: is think big, as big as you can possibly think, and shoot for that. The bigger you aim for, the bigger you're going to be. Set the standards for yourself as high as you possibly can and also surround yourself with people who have the same visions you have.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Thinking, People, Advice

  Source: www.themonitor.com

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