I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.
Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.
Tell me again what we're doing here," I said, running a continuous scan of our surroundings. Fang popped some Cracker Jack into his mouth. "We're here to watch manly men do manly things. " I followed Fang's line of sight: He was watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, who were not doing manly things, by any stretch of the imagination.
If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
The answers we're looking for are all within ourselves, we just need to become better connected, more present - to what we eat, to nature, to our surroundings and to our inner guide.
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.
An airport carpet can tell you everything about its surroundings!
I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.
Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.