Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there."
Surroundings quotes
Surroundings
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Franklin Carmichael
Painter
"It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings."
DJ Khaled
Music Producer
"When you success you have to be very smart and be extra focused and protect your surroundings."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings."
Lucian Freud
Painter
"My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings."
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"The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
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"Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind"
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"If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself."
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"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."
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"Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings."
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"Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings."
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"The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings)."
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"Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings."
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"Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves."
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"I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings."
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"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."
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