Minor White Quotes

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

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• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Harmony
  • Florida
  • Rocket

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.

  

  Vanity
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Chance

• I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Start
  • Industry
  • Late

• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Communication
  • Answer

• I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Nature
  • Think
  • More

• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • True

• I try to take each moment at a time.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Time
  • Moment
  • Try

• That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Long
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Lost

• Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

  

  David Korten
  • Wall

• I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up
  • Why
  • Balance

• Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis

• I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Writing
  • Hope
  • College

• The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.

  

  Jason Katims
  • People

• Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a cyber stack would have to attack all the copies simultaneously to be successful.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Single

• We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

  

  Epictetus

• Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Laughter

• Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Game
  • Way
  • Baseball

• You must strive for individuality!! Got that?! Strive!

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Strive
  • Individuality

• There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Time
  • Space
  • Moments

• While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

  

  Minor White
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