Ansel Adams Quotes

The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.

Ansel Adams

• Spirit
• Miracle
• Exist
• Camera
• Robot

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• Justice is never given; it is exacted.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Justice
  • Never
  • Given

• I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Thought
  • Diet

• If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Interesting
  • Alone
  • Behavior

• I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Made
  • I Love

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• Falsehood is a perennial spring.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Spring
  • Falsehood
  • Perennial

• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Great
  • Society

• When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Live
  • Strange

• I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Little

• 'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age.

  

  Becky G
  • Age
  • Fans
  • Ready

• I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Dad
  • College
  • Worked

• Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • Success
  • Night

• I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

  

  Larry David
  • Write
  • Idiots
  • I Write

• The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Power
  • Master
  • Irresponsible

• Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Support
  • Wife

• Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Spirit

• Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Fly

• Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash.

  

  Elliott Abrams

• I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Relationship

• Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

  

  Sebastian Thrun
  • Feels
  • Failing
  • Disappointed

• The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

  

  Dean Mitchell
  • Spirit
  • Communicate
  • Visual

• Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner, a person must gather each letter, each syllable, to form them into words of prayer.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Beautiful
  • Words
  • Prayer

• The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Spirit
  • Miracle
  • Exist