David Hurn Quotes
These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them
Quotes to Explore
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
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Language is the tool of the tools.
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When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.
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A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one's thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it is to be able to converse on the level of each family member. Too often we are inclined to let family members assume how we feel toward them. Often wrong conclusions are reached. Very often we could have performed better had we known how family members felt about us and what they expected.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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There are times when even justice brings harm with it.
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Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
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In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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Cancer has touched my life and the lives of those I love, and now I'm ready to help all that I can in the fight.
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For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
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Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engross all your application. Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite for the reading of poems which the nation now swarms withal; and let not the Circaen cup intoxicate you. But especially preserve the chastity of your soul from the dangers you may incur, by a conversation with muses no better than harlots.
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Man is too quick at forming conclusions.
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Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
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A single-continent world would be expected to contain only about a third as many mammalian species as currently exist.
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We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds - the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.
