I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.
In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.
I would like immortality.
I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.
I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.
I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.
We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.
Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
When you are working well with your energy, you are also making the best expression of your personal power... By reading your own energy, by becoming aware of the lens through which you see your world, you can change your mind and change your life.
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.
The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.
We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.
The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.
In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!
If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my best images appear. That excitement and shock of discovery makes my life at these moments a gift.
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.
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