Ansel Adams Quotes
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams
Quotes to Explore
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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
Radhanath Swami
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
Xenophon
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
Patrick Kane
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
Halima Aden
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
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Lawyer even sounds like liar.
Walter Mosley
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What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
Ben Jonson
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen
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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...
Agatha Christie
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There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
Charles Dickens
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It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.
Jeff Bridges
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To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.
Akira Suzuki
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It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.
Marvin J. Ashton
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Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment. Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.
Augusto De Luca
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Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.
Steven Spielberg
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams
