Kurt Lewin Quotes

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

As for testosterone, it's gotten a bum rap. Yes, it has tons to do with aggression but it doesn't cause aggression as much as sensitizes you to the environmental triggers of aggression.

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

You're only as good as your options and your surroundings.

Environment is stronger than will.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

I feel like people are actually just built differently, have different chemicals going on in their goddamn brain.

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

This earth is exciting. There are so many things happening.

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

Children are different - mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.

People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.