"Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer."

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Source : Quoted in Listener, 14 Dec. 1939 See Calonne 1; Santayana 14; Trollope 3

Fridtjof Nansen

#Lines Quotes #Littles Quotes #Retreat Quotes

“I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.”
“When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose claim to be truth-bearers rests solely on intense personal feeling.”

Source : "Tynan Right and Left : Plays, Films, People, Places and Events" by Kenneth Tynan, (p. 143), 1967.
“Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.”
“I used to sell ***** to my son's mom's new husband. And then I would take that money and give it to her as child support.”
“If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didnâ€™t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didnâ€™t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?”
“Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience.”
“Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.”
“If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.”

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