“The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson
STATUS QUOtes
STATUS QUOtes — 20150311
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” — Euripides
“Everybody should have an equal chance — but they shouldn’t have a flying start.” — Harold Wilson
“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.” — Sigmund Freud
“Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard.” — Edgar Fiedler
Rules to Live by From the Dalai Lama
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In a recent post by Darlene Hildebrandt, 11 Rules of Living by Dalai Lama to Help You Bring Zen to Your Photography,she offers some great advice and like many “truths” this advice can be applied to numerous phases and stages of life. I offer a few of them below juxtaposed with quotes that I have heard and which I find relate well to her “rules.” If you find meaning in them and you want to learn how Darlene Hildebrandt understands their relationship to her photography, visit the link above.
- “Great love and great achievements involve great risk.” – “And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” ― Erica Jong
- “When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.” – “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” ― James Joyce
- “Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.” – “When you teach a child, you teach their children as well.” – The Talmud
- “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – “Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers.” – Garth Brooks
Photography Quote – Ambrose Bierce
Photograph: A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce
STATUS QUOtes — 20150310
“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change.” — William S. Burroughs
“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” — Wayne Dyer
“Chaos is a friend of mine.” — Bob Dylan
“Nothing is so simple it cannot be misunderstood.” — Freeman’s Law
STATUS QUOtes — 20150309
“Wise men have interpreted dreams and the gods have laughed.” — Howard Phillips Lovecraft
“Truth fears no trial.” — Thomas Fuller
“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.” — Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” — Jerry Seinfeld
STATUS QUOtes — 20150308
“I am not afraid, I was born to do this.” — Joan of Arc
“If it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” — Tom Hanks
“Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.” — Robert S. McNamara
“Childhood: the time in life when you make funny faces in the mirror. Middle age: the time of life when the mirror gets even.” — Unknown
STATUS QUOtes — 20150307
“The greatest battles of life are fought daily in the silent chambers of the soul.” — David O. McKay
“When you ignore them, you’re teaching them to live without you.” — Unknown
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.” — Buddha
“It’s odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.” — Jean Giraudoux
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“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.” — Robert Frost
“Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” — E.V.
“Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are…” — Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice.
“Lazy is such a negative word. I prefer the term ‘selective participation.'” — Unknown
STATUS QUOtes — 20150305
“If you’re helping someone and expecting something in return, you’re doing business not kindness.” — Unknown
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
“There is no better test of a person’s integrity than their behavior when they are wrong.[ed]” — Marvin Williams
“I have nothing to say, and I’ll only say it once.” — Floyd Smith, Hockey coach