Imogen Cunningham Quotes
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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.
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Our output and continued success is all about our culture. Ours has to be highly collaborative, and we have company-wide events and processes to make sure everyone stays aligned.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever.
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I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.
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There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
