Environment Impact Quotes

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

My entire personality changes when I'm in L.A.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.

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.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

Not really a perfectionist, but everybody around me is.

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.