Statement Quotes

• Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photographer
  • Concept
  • Emphasis

• There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Opinions
  • Crimes
  • Axiom

• People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if anyone else can do it well, it's only because they're like us.' I think more men are starting to learn that this attitude is totally hollow and based in imagination. As more women are involved in music, this kind of thing gets said less and less.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Music
  • Imagination
  • Attitude

• Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Progress

• Clear statement is argument.

  

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd
  • Argument
  • Statement

• When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Statement

• Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

  

  Bob Gill
  • Design
  • Statement

• I think we did make a statement, because we played one of the most physical teams in the league.

  

  Bob Sanders
  • League
  • Teams
  • Statement

• Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Remember
  • Answers
  • Public

• I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Real
  • Fashion
  • High School

• Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Political
  • Statement
  • Abstract

• The person who is defined by integrity understands that everything they do is a statement about who they are as a person.

  

  Bishop Noel Jones
  • Person
  • Integrity
  • Statement

• Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as an educated person. You are either learning or you are not. In today's world, it is vitally important that you see the truth in Eric Hoffer's statement. The win or loss, which is waiting in the wings for every person, is enormous. You get to choose which you will experience.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Learning

• Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

  

  Barry Long
  • Truth
  • Statement

• The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track. The life we are living and have known to this point is comfortable and easy. Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life. Our old belief system drags us back into the familiar. It is hard to overcome and we often experience small setbacks. This is the time to go back and look at your goals. Read your goal statement repeatedly and remind yourself of what you want and why.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Goals
  • New York
  • Habits

• I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Years
  • Damage
  • Statement

• Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Nature
  • Statement
  • Ring

• Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Teacher
  • Belief
  • Tradition

• I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Conviction
  • Statement
  • Photographs

• Your clothes should always make a statement.

  

  Eric Jacobson
  • Clothes
  • Statement

• Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

  

  Rick Kaplan
  • Statement
  • Almost
  • Wearing

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