#surround

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#communicator #fall #find #great #listen

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#being #concept #grew #i #just

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#brown #challenged #come #expectations #experience

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true. ↗

— Samuel Schmid

#being #island #joke #land #never

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world. ↗

— Katherine Center

#world #experience

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#could #i #life #live #mind

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#embedded #entity #exist #extent #isolated

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

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state? ↗

— John Strachan

#been #colonies #could #darkness #evident

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance. ↗

— David Brin

#advance #along #begin #book #characters