Surroundings Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

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.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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.

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

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

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.

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.