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

• 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

• I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Song

• To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Freedom
  • Rock

• I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Time
  • World
  • Desire

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• God works in different ways and it shows... And everybody knows, love comes and goes.

  

  Edward Anderson
  • Love
  • Different Ways
  • God Works

• I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Try

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

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Simple
  • Feels
  • Theory