Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

Sebastiao Salgado

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• I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Study
  • Stand

• It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Want
  • Act
  • Wednesday

• There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Power
  • Leadership

• I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Business
  • Think
  • Now

• Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Band
  • Risk
  • Possible

• The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Program
  • China
  • Complacency

• Liberals consider people to be nuisances.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Consider
  • Liberals

• A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Man
  • Hear

• The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Success
  • Key
  • Key To Success

• At Brit + Co, our mission is to unlock creativity, so we look for future employees that actively flex their creative muscles. The design of your resume is the first way to let me know more about your aesthetic.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Future
  • Design
  • Creativity

• Don't be down on that you're not up on.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Up
  • Falling
  • Upstairs

• Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Work
  • Father
  • Dead

• Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Kids
  • Taxes
  • Ice Cream

• Of course, I, like the sponsoring government, would like to have as many people as possible visit Yokohama Triennale. This is because I believe that art should not be monopolized by professionals and specialists.

  

  Yasumasa Morimura
  • People
  • Believe
  • Art

• Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.

  

  Danielle Berry
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Wish

• Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Purpose
  • Void

• ...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves...I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.

  

  Will Self
  • Thinking
  • Fashion
  • Wonder

• Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Glance
  • Scoundrels
  • Knifing

• Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Death
  • Depravity

• I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Song
  • Demonstration
  • Pub

• I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Appreciate
  • Kissing
  • Cameras

• In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Cameras
  • Privilege
  • Genesis