#surrounding

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#comfort #directly #experimenting #false #i

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#been #certain #certain age #choose #expectations

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#extraordinary #go #interested #keen #most

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#america #anybody #based #french #headlines

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#feels #his #individual #land #native

The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#care #completely #how #i #i am

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. ↗

— James Allen

#being #conditioned #happiness #happy #harmonious

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#even #hard #hard work #i #increments

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#chose #creation #does #french #him

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#because #behind #between #i #importance