Design a High-Performing Environment Quotes

Environment beats willpower every time they are tested against each other.  The man who designs his surroundings for focus makes the right actions automatic.  This Productivity path holds history's smartest quotes on environment design.  Scroll through and put them to work.
“Environment is stronger than willpower.”
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“Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.”
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“Your personal environment is your mental environment.”
— Unknown
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“The right environment breeds the right mindset, and the right mindset breeds the right actions.”
— Unknown
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“Every business, every place, every person, everything has a certain mental atmosphere of its own. This atmosphere decides what will be drawn to it.”
— Unknown
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“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
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“Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.”
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“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective.”
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“We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
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“You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”
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“Cease being a creature of circumstances. Master your environment. If you learn this, you become one of the Gods.”
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“There is only one way to radically change your behavior: radically change your environment.”
— BJ Fogg
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“If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.”
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“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
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“Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions.”
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“A place for everything, everything in its place.”
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“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”
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“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.”
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“If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.”
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“Spend good money on whatever stands between you and the ground: your shoes, your tires, your mattress.”
— Unknown
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“It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.”
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“Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
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“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.”
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“Proximity is power.”
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“Most people are thermometers that record or register the temperature of majority opinion, not thermostats that transform and regulate the temperature of society.”
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“Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.”
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“You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.”
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“Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.”
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“If you want different luck, start walking into different rooms.”
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“The disciplined life looks impressive, but the well-designed life lasts longer. Before you try to find more willpower, design your environment and arrange your day so you’re more likely to follow through.”
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“Think about your placement as much as your performance. Plant yourself where you can thrive.”
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“Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.”
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