Imogen Cunningham Quotes

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

Imogen Cunningham

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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • High
  • Know

• We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • People
  • Live
  • Courage

• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Great
  • Death

• Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Great
  • Funny

• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Stronger

• For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Seattle

• There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Humour allows people to exhale a little.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Little
  • Humour

• Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • People
  • Same
  • Mistakes

• It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Trying
  • House

• People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Remember
  • Die

• I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Coming
  • Miseries

• People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.

  

  Ben Foster
  • People
  • Life
  • Dad

• It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than a mass of random points of light. I do not see why we should recognize a house, a tree, or a flower here below and not, for example, the red Arcturus up there in the heavens as it hangs from its constellation Bootes, like a basket hanging from a balloon.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

  

  Jean Marais
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• I tried to go to college in the U.K. a couple of times, but at that point, I think I was a little disillusioned with education. It wasn't giving me what I wanted it to. I needed freedom to create and do the things that I wanted to explore, and it wasn't really doing that: it was still very prescriptive.

  

  Billy Howle
  • Giving
  • Freedom
  • Education

• Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

  

  Ali Farahnakian
  • Teaching
  • Making
  • Fast

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive