Lenses Quotes - Page 7

• Why did I lose? No reason, though you might like to know that I got tired, my ears started popping, the rubber came off my shoes, I got cramp, and I lost one of my contact lenses. Other than that I was in great shape.

  Bob Lutz

  Tired, Lost Ones, Shoes

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• As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.

  Keith Johnstone

  Children, Eye, Perception

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.13, Routledge

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• Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

  Ann Voskamp

  World, Warp, Without God

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• Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens—but maybe if it’s how you see them,that’s how they really are.It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.

  Jenny Han

  Beautiful, Fall, People

  Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Eyeglasses, Computer, Disappear

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• But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.

  Roland Barthes

  Eye, Mirrors, Looks

  Roland Barthes (1994). “Roland Barthes”

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• If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

  Eve Arnold

  Inspirational, Photography, People

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• Forgiveness is not a moral issue.
  It is an energy dynamic...
  Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.
  When you choose not to forgive,
  the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.
  When you choose not to forgive,
  it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything,
  and it is you who are forced every day
  to look at life through those contaminated lenses
  because you have chosen to keep them.

  Gary Zukav

  Forgiveness, Mean, Dark

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• Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.

  Steve Pavlina

  Block, Reality, Vision

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• Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Bible, Biblical, Culture

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• In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

  John Updike

  Memories, Old Memories, Objects

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.23, Random House

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• If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography, People, Cameras

  Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

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• I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Moving, Cameras, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts create filters through which you view your life. If you think of yourself as a Victim, you filter all that happens to you through the lens of DDT, and you find plenty of evidence to support that viewpoint. That's why the orientation you adopt is so important: it exerts a powerful influence on your life direction.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Powerful, Thinking, Views

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• No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

  Paul Strand

  Use, Matter, Film

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• The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Spy, Remember

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

  Len Deighton

  Writing, Way, Stores

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

  Len Deighton

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

  Len Deighton

  Book, Interesting, Asking

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• This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.

  David Foster Wallace

  Self, Matter, Virtue

  David Foster Wallace (2009). “This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Over half the people in the United States wear corrective lenses, and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more clearly - if they would only experiment with changing their ideas about vision.

  Jacob Liberman

  Ideas, People, Vision

  Jacob Liberman (2011). “Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight”, p.24, Harmony

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• A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

  Allen Lacy

  Powerful, Light, Hands

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• If you look at yourself and life through the lens of your ego, you'll feel isolated, ganged up on, alone, dfferent, and not part of the crowd. If you look through the lens of Spirit, knowing we're all one, you'll always feel safe, secure, ad loved.

  Sonia Choquette

  Knowing, Ego, Looks

  Sonia Choquette (2009). “The Answer Is Simple...: Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit!: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Writing, Stories, Photographer

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