Surrounding Environment Quotes

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

History happens all around us.

A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

And the walls became the world all around.

If you are with five successful people, then you are the sixth successful person. The reverse of this is true as well, so who are you hanging out with?

Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.

The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me.

You want to go to where there's competition, with guys surrounding you every day.

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.