Michael Foreman Quotes

Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.

Michael Foreman

• Emotional
• Situation
• Photographic
• Believable
• Capturing

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• Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Why
  • Society
  • Giving

• Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Think
  • Always
  • Emotional

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Up
  • Situation
  • Dreaming

• I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Know
  • Fans
  • Situation

• When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • People
  • High
  • Change

• My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

  

  Gallant
  • Live
  • Want
  • Emotional

• The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World
  • History
  • Political

• Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Advice
  • Situation
  • Boss

• All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Mind
  • Emotional
  • Conviction

• My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Son
  • Thought
  • Emotional

• The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Emotional

• Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn’t get all its oil from OPEC.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• The male is a biological accident: the y(male) gene is an incomplete x(female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion.... To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Words
  • Emotional
  • Walking

• Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Thoughts
  • Emotional
  • Survival

• Human beings are largely motivated by their emotional repertoire, manifested through their need for attachment, physical security, a sense of belonging and a positive personal and collective identity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Positive
  • Emotional
  • Identity

• I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I'm not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Different
  • Job
  • Strong

• If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.

  

  Janet Evanovich

• War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

  

  David Douglas Duncan
  • Business
  • War
  • Photography

• Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

  

  Newton Lee
  • Power
  • Information
  • Abuse

• Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Good
  • Age
  • Moments

• I prefer shooting on location, just because it always helps you. You go some place, you put your life on hold even more than when you've settled in some place. You can make a new life so it opens yourself up to the make-believe and the imagination in a way when you aren't burdened by things that remind you of your life all the time.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Believe
  • Imagination
  • Helping

• Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.

  

  Michael Foreman
  • Emotional
  • Situation
  • Photographic