Saul Leiter Quotes

I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.

Saul Leiter

Quotes to Explore

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Warren Weaver
- Science
- Ignorance
- View
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Barbra Streisand
- People
- Good
- Believe
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

A. R. Ammons
- Time
- Health
- Day
Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.

Candice Swanepoel
- People
- Better
- Yourself
Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

Dan Rather
- Never
- Air
- Before
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Yehuda Berg
- Power
- Help
- Words