"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment."

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Source : Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

Bill Brandt

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“You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.”

Source : George Lakoff (2008). “The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics”, p.10, Penguin
“Being unashamedly Muslim while excelling in whatever you do is of the greatest forms of Dawah.”
“Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.”
“All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.”
“And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so eminent that they are owed in condign [deserved] judgment that which is given freely. Would it not be a debasement of redemption in Christâ€™s blood, and would not Godâ€™s mercy be made secondary to human works, if justification, which is through grace, were owed in view of preceding merits, so that it were not the gift of a Donor, but the wages of a laborer?”
“I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.”
“The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what to do; it's where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. Nothing matters more in the world or in my body or anywhere when I'm writing.”
“Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"”

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