Ansel Adams Quotes

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.

Ansel Adams

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• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Experience
  • Fight

• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • You

• I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Ideas

• Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Fear

• All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

  

  Edith Stein
  • Experience
  • Present
  • More

• People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • Experience
  • Door
  • Architecture

• Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Help

• Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Happy
  • Reality
  • Happiness

• Students today need experience to get a job, and they need a job to get experience. The Chegg Champion program provides students with a real-world working experience that actually offers financial rewards.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • World
  • Real
  • Experience

• All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Journey
  • Comfortable
  • Source

• Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Experience
  • Funny
  • Changing

• People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don't be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

• The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

  

  William James
  • World
  • Reality
  • Theatre

• Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

  

  Kesha
  • Perfect
  • Period
  • Model

• The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Family
  • American

• To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Reflection