Katherine Center Quotes

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

The environment shapes people's actions.

Your environment affects you wherever you are.

The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.

We are always impacting the world...through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having?

It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set in an interior world: not inside the house but inside the mind and body of writer and reader.

I am what is around me.

The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me.

If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild.

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

You become that to which you are most exposed.

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.