Scott Neustadter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.

  • A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

  • In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.

  • Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

  • All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

  • First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

  • I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

  • It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

  • Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect.

  • Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.