Ernst Haas Quotes

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

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• Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

  

  Feist
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Lucky

• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • America
  • Better
  • Step

• I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Girl
  • Same
  • Lucky

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • America
  • Reality
  • Government

• As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Strong
  • Professional

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• Don't be afraid to look silly.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Look
  • Afraid
  • Silly

• I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Black
  • Feeling

• I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • Worry
  • Treat

• The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Forget
  • First
  • Lose

• So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Better
  • Pen
  • You Can Do It

• With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.

  

  Rafi Fine
  • Girls
  • Concept
  • Universal

• Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today

• Words do have a limited range of meaning, and no interpretation that goes beyond that range is permissible.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Words

• My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I'm not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Up
  • House
  • Wife

• When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Teenager

• The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live - live a complete life - live all our life.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fear

• I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

  

  Frank Oz
  • Music
  • Different
  • Done

• I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.

  

  Daesung
  • Good
  • Feels
  • Late

• Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Imagination
  • Feels
  • Catastrophe

• Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • Important
  • Stories
  • Building

• My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Simple
  • Feels
  • Theory