Snapshots Quotes - Page 5

• I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots, when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.

  Scott McClellan

  Thinking, Reality, People

  "Ports Showdown Averted, White House Relieved". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2006.

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• No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less

  Damon Albarn

  Thinking, Albums, Moments

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• Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Discipline, Systems Change

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.59, Random House

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• Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Color, Palette

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• How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.

  Reif Larsen

  Laughter, Buttons, World

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.

  Shane Carruth

  Photography, Looks, Scripts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.

  Sam Haskins

  Simple, Piano, Cameras

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• Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look like. I never understood snapshots. I was looking at them like, "This is horrible; that's not what a picture is supposed to look like." I was taught by these photos. So when I picked up the camera, though I had never done it before, I kind of already knew what I was doing.

  Jeff Vespa

  Kids, Thinking, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

  Adrienne Rich

  Cutting, Light, Self

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• What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots. To point a camera at something does not qualify you as an artist because everybody has done that.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Photography, Artist, Cameras

  "Snap decisions" by Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2000.

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• Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get resolved.

  Peter Senge

  Years, Play, Focus

  "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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• I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

  William Klein

  Photography, Zero, Believe

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• All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

  Alanis Morissette

  Promise, Records, Default

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• This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.

  Mark Steyn

  Real, Twilight, Responsibility

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• I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Blessed, Interesting, People

  "Every day is a holiday for Yo-Yo Ma". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. November 12, 2008.

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• Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on the curved parabola of a starting line, eight giant hearts attached to eight pairs of bellows-like lungs mounted on eight pairs of supercharged stilts. They were poised on the edge of some howling vortex they had run 10,000 miles to get to. Now they had to run one more

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Running, Heart, Eight

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• Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

  Bill Bryson

  Looks, Earth, Cents

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.168, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

  Edmund White

  Memories, Albums, Transcendent

  "Jack Holmes and His Friend". Book by Edmund White, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

  Ellen Goodman

  Memories, Grandpa, Video

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• Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.

  Richard Avedon

  Taken, Hands, Order

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• I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.

  Frank Iero

  Song, Gone, Records

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• Songs are snapshots of things - it's likened to looking at pictures.

  Michael Benjamin Lerner

  Song

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

  Ransom Riggs

  Girl, Baby, War

  "9 Creepy Photos That Appear In ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’" by Ransom Riggs, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

  Francine Prose

  Children, Grief, Book

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• But sometimes everything I write
  with the threadbare art of my eye
  seems a snapshot

  Robert Lowell

  Art, Eye, Writing

  Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: a tribute”

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