Joel Sternfeld Quotes

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

Joel Sternfeld

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• Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Work
  • Vision
  • Commitment

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Good
  • Done
  • Power

• I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Trouble
  • Because
  • Get

• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  

  J Allard
  • Great
  • Real
  • May

• Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Death

• Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

  

  Florence Harding
  • You
  • Going
  • Presidency

• You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Family
  • End

• After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Feeling
  • Food
  • Picture

• I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Food
  • Fall
  • Sick

• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Guys
  • Serial
  • Monogamist

• Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good Things

• Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Career

• Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

  

  Lillian Gordy Carter
  • Time

• Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

  

  James Gleick
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden

• Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Alone

• The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

  

  James M. Barrie
  • Humble

• It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Necessity

• Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

  Elliott Erwitt
  • Quality
  • Photography

• You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

  

  Joel Sternfeld
  • Photography