Surroundings Quotes

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
Heidi Klum

Positive, Yourself, Important

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Great, Struggle

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James

Life, Thinking, Blame

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
Orison Swett Marden

Life, Yourself, Character

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
James Allen

Happiness, Health, Happy

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Honore de Balzac

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Best, Mind

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
Ivor Novello

Change, Home, Evening

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.
Michael Phelps

Home, Normal, Swimming

Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
Pamela Anderson

Far, Natural, Lesson

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
George Cadbury

Life, Family, Happy

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
Maya Lin

Art, Give, Different

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.
Mia Wasikowska

Age, Question, Choose

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
Lucian Freud

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.
Claude Chabrol

Black, Control, Making

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.
Leona Lewis

Important, Aware, Vigilant

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
Peace Pilgrim

Hurt, Cause, Inside

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.
Arthur Smith

Perfect, Sky, Trees

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
Stephen Gardiner

Able, Calm, Inner

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.
Anthony Kiedis

Rock, Thought, Around

It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.
Marilu Henner

Work, Best, Important

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
Emma Goldman

Whole, Often, Vision

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
K. D. Lang

Thought, Voice, Physical

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.
River Phoenix

Qualities, Chameleon

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

Work, Real, Working

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
Malcolm Mclaren

Why, Become, Place

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
Howard Hodgkin

Thought, Worry, England

There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
Ivor Novello

Music, Good, Mind

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
T-Pain

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