Essentials Quotes - Page 30

It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

Steve Martin

Doubt, Shows

Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.

Julio Cortazar

Expression, Focus, Cameras

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Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

Dane Cook

Losing Everything, Ego, Elements

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The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.

Andre Bazin

Photography, Lying, Men

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Character is the salesperson's stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn't go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.

George Madison Adams

Character, Enthusiasm, Courtesy

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For me it is essential to understand that everyone is alone. Not in the sense of loneliness, but rather in the sense that no one can completely understand someone else. I know very well what Diane Arbus means when she says that one cannot crawl into someone else's skin, but there is always an urge to do so anyway. I want to awaken definite sympathies for the person I have photographed.

Rineke Dijkstra

Loneliness, Mean, Skins

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I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more powerful idea of what is, or could be photographic.

Lewis Baltz

Photography, Powerful, Ideas

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In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.

Barbara Degenevieve

Erotic, Style, Identity

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I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.

Gertrude Kasebier

Mother, Children, People

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Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

Mother Teresa

Giving, Silence, Soul

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.8, New World Library

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Mother Teresa

Prayer, Flower, Light

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Conservatives tend to believe there is a close and necessary connection between prosperity and freedom - that economic freedom is an essential part of human freedom.

Edwin Feulner

Believe, Connections, Prosperity

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In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.

Dallas Willard

Denial, World, Faces

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The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering, and analyzing images are as essential to the digital artist as brushes and pigments to a painter.

William J. Mitchell

Artist, Tools, Information

William J. Mitchell (1994). “The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-photographic Era”, p.6, MIT Press

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Recording in Nashville was absolutely essential to get the sound, the musicians, the atmosphere, the warmth... There are just cult places like that in the world, like Chicago for the blues or New York for jazz. Nothing sounds the same in Nashville as it does elsewhere. Nashville is the Mecca of country music and everyone knows it.

Roch Voisine

Country, New York, Nashville

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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

Bette Davis

Writing, Thinking, Female

"Listen to Bette Davis Stick it to Sexists in a 1963 Interview" by Megan Friedman, www.elle.com. October 1, 2014.

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Pre-planning is essential. Research, research, research. If you are going to do a portrait, know as much as you can about the person beforehand. The web makes this very easy.

Peter Menzel

Portraits, Research, Planning

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I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?

Rick Warren

Trying, Debate, Denominations

"This evangelist has a 'Purpose'". Interview with Cathy Lynn Grossman, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 21, 2003.

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Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.

Ralph Marston

Dream, Rich, Fulfilling

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My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Children, Doctors, Addiction

"Sanjeev Bhaskar: Goodness, I'm home!". Interview with Tina Jackson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

Anais Nin

Writing, Fusion, Lovers

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Those who consider the inessential to be essential
And see the essential as inessential
Don't reach the essential,
Living in the field of wrong intention

Gautama Buddha

Fields, Intention

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Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his haste for premature simplification always tends to shut his eyes to one aspect of the truth and to seek a false harmony of thought by the sacrifice of an essential element of reality.

Christopher Dawson

Eye, Sacrifice, Reality

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An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

Norman Cousins

Laughter, Healthy, Adequate

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The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.

Frank Underhill

Country, Working Together, Groups

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