Surroundings Quotes - Page 7

• If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

  Maya Lin

  Forget, Sensitive, Used

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• Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rain, Independent, Rocks

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• Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.

  Adam Braun

  People, Leaving, Who We Are

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• I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Change, Sorrow, Finals

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

  Hildegard Knef

  Land, Musical, Rehearsal

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• Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

  Susan Minot

  Looks, Littles, Film

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• In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it!

  Ellie Goulding

  Memories, Nice, Australia

  "Interview: Ellie Goulding on her upcoming 2014 New Zealand 'Halcyon Days' Arena tour!". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 14, 2013.

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• Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Fit, Old Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst.

  Radhanath Swami

  Important, Kind, Consciousness

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us?  It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings.

  T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

  Home, Heart, Individual

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• As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

  Richard Louv

  Needs, Natural, Young

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• The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible. He identifies with his surroundings and they live within him unconsciously; it is perhaps for this reason that the small child has been characterized as naturally religious.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Religious, Children, Secret

  Mary Caroline Richards (1989). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.102, Wesleyan University Press

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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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• 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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• I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

  Marilyn Horne

  Home, People, Singing

  Marilyn Horne, Jane Scovell (1983). “Marilyn Horne, my life”, Scribner

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• One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.

  Constance Spry

  Flower, Moving, Weather

  Constance Spry (1940). “Constance Spry's Garden Notebook”

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• After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Discovery, World

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• Art should become as one with its surroundings.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Life, Art, Should

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• Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

  David Adjaye

  Important, Building, Wanted

  "A Sense of Place". Interview with Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.

  Jens Jensen

  Art, Lying, Plant

  Jens Jensen (1990). “Siftings”, p.115, JHU Press

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• All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

  Ed McMahon

  Caring, House, Needs

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• The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Gratitude, Grateful, Needs

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• Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health.

  Ellen G. White

  Beautiful, Mean, Sunshine

  Ellen G. White (1999). “All About Herbs, Charcoal, Medications, and Drugs: A Spirit of Prophecy Compilation”, p.460, Digital Inspiration

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• 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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