Edward Weston Quotes

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

Edward Weston

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• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Fun
  • More
  • Conclusion

• The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Important
  • Me
  • Influence

• I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Sing

• I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Fan
  • Supportive

• Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Years
  • Economics
  • Economists

• By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Nature
  • Person
  • Optimistic

• I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Think
  • Human
  • Profound

• I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Fearless

• I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • College
  • Fashion

• I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Try

• A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Up
  • God
  • Wait

• Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Learning
  • Survival
  • Neither

• You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ...' - let's claim it now.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Plan

• I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Sports

• Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Knowledge

• Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • World

• Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

  

  Abraham Polonsky

• Ideas kill people.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People

• Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Courage

• I am opposed to abortion on demand, and I am opposed to the 1967 Act in Britain being transferred to the north.

  

  Martin McGuinness

• Para poder alcanzar ciertas alturas, no las bajo: las levanto más.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Man's security comes from within himself.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Security
  • Comes
  • Within

• Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

  

  Edward Weston