Walker Evans Quotes

Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.

Walker Evans

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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

Damian Woetzel
- Work
- Vision
- Commitment
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

Hamid Karzai
- People
- Country
- Change
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

Madeleine Albright
- Time
- Hand
- Listening
If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

Adam Grant
- World
- Children
- Ideas
So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

Feist
- Great
- Fun
- Simple
We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

Nathaniel Philbrick
- Revolution
- Battle
- Ending