John Dewey Quotes

It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

So much of design is context.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

Our universe - it's three-dimensional, but we can pretend it's two-dimensional so it's like this sheet of paper - and we live in Pasadena over here and London is over there, and it's thousands of miles from Pasadena to London.

In soft regions are born soft men.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

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.

I was raised hearing music everywhere I went.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

I think it's a combination of my peoples that I grew up under, places that I hung out is what contributed to where I'm at now.

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

If you don't feel comfortable playing a role, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.

I always say that environment always affects the food.

It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

I'm a product of my environment.