Ansel Adams Quotes

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Ansel Adams

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LoveThoughtRealitySpiritOthers

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Jerry Lee Lewis

GodTalentPracticePeopleYouTell

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.

Megan McCafferty

GirlTogetherCompetitionPoetryWin

Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?

Matthew Reilly

ChildMeAnimalsZooAlwaysHappen

As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn't trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.

Jeff Van Gundy

GreatBrandTryingKindImageFeed

Nobody's perfect. Even the most successful people make serious mistakes.

Travis Bradberry

MistakesPeoplePerfectNobodyEven

At times, my confidence is rock bottom, although I try for it to be sky high, thanks to the people that are always there with me and support me.

Javier Hernandez

ConfidenceSkySupportPeopleMe

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

Jean Cocteau

ComfortHeightMustStateHeHis

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Joseph Addison

PassionGrowingAdmirationObject

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

Donald Judd

MomentExperienceThinkYouKind

What I love is getting polarized opinions.

Brendon Urie

LoveLove IsOpinionsGettingI Love

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

William Gibson

TechnologyOpinionsFindPersonal

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.

Sheridan Smith

WorkPeopleMeKnowNeverOut

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