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.
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“We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
“Proximity is power.”
“Your personal environment is your mental environment.”
“Environment is stronger than willpower.”
“Spend good money on whatever stands between you and the ground: your shoes, your tires, your mattress.”
“A place for everything, everything in its place.”
“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective.”
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Most people are thermometers that record or register the temperature of majority opinion, not thermostats that transform and regulate the temperature of society.”
“If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.”
“Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.”
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”
“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.”
“The right environment breeds the right mindset, and the right mindset breeds the right actions.”
“Cease being a creature of circumstances. Master your environment. If you learn this, you become one of the Gods.”
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.”
“Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
“Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.”
“There is only one way to radically change your behavior: radically change your environment.”
“Clutter is nothing more than postponed decisions.”
“If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.”
“Every business, every place, every person, everything has a certain mental atmosphere of its own. This atmosphere decides what will be drawn to it.”
