Bill Jay Quotes

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

Bill Jay

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• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Joy

• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Important
  • Education

• Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Peace
  • Body
  • Emotions

• To be honest, whenever I go to shoots, or I'm on set, it really makes makeup special and allows me to have so much more fun with it – I don't wear it on an everyday basis, because I like my skin to breathe.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Everyday

• The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Brain
  • Digital

• Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Words

• When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Control
  • Patience

• Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Experience
  • Soul

• There's a depth to the look that you get with models that you just can't get with CGI. It's about the detail that you just wouldn't think to put in.

  

  Duncan Jones

• I wouldn't ever classify myself as a singer. I see myself as a songwriter first.

  

  Jimmy Napes

• Most germs aren't bad. You're in a microbial environment all the time.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Environment

• I was the one with a subscription to 'Sky and Telescope' magazine as a kid while my friends were reading 'Tiger Beat.'

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Friends
  • Reading
  • Sky

• I was running around all the time, talking out of turn, a lot of energy, and obsessed with movies. There's nothing I loved more than going to the movies.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Running

• It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.

  

  Kent Conrad
  • Good
  • Children
  • Future

• One of the earliest requested features was to do premium filters where a brand could sponsor a filter. It's just not in our wheelhouse. It doesn't feel 'Instagram'-my in the way that the high-quality brand ads do.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • High
  • Quality

• There are good reasons for not wanting to host the Olympics. The Games can be costly and, in spite of their patriotic overtones, can unintentionally expose a nation's weaknesses to the world.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • World
  • Good
  • Patriotic

• Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

  

  Doug Ose
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Pride

• It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books.

  

  Hal Varian
  • Book
  • Technology
  • Library

• What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Hand

• Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

  

  Catherine Malandrino
  • America
  • Dream
  • Woman

• I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Photography
  • Common Sense
  • Intellectualism