Edward Steichen Quotes

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.

Edward Steichen

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• If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Work
  • Important
  • Friends

• When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Work
  • Year
  • Chill

• Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Behind

• I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Company

• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Different
  • Know

• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Important
  • Rules

• How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Work
  • City
  • How

• I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Work
  • Wife
  • Need

• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Important
  • Age
  • Society

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Work
  • Engineering
  • Student

• Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • You
  • Perfect

• I've got a clear line between work and real life.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Positive
  • Motivated

• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Good
  • Problem

• Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Passion
  • Positive

• Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Important
  • Laugh

• Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • Great
  • Band
  • Stupid

• You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.

  

  David Means

• First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Country
  • Sports
  • Color

• It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Work
  • Important
  • Perfect