"There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it."

-- James Welling

#Running Quotes #Cameras Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“The single most empowering thing we can do for ourselves is to transform fear. While fear contains tremendous power, it doesn't propel us forward and upward, but, rather, drags us down and chains us to the past. Freeing ourselves from fear is a loving intention because, as fear subsides, we are better able to access the soft, sweet power of our hearts, which naturally leads to loving ourselves and others more freely and completely.”
“And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and spirit? Because if you aren't, you will get caught up in gaining and losing weight for the rest of your life. But if you are willing, then the portal to what you say you want is truly on your plate.”
“Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.”
“How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.”
“The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.”
“I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.”

Source : "Battle: Los Angeles/ Cory Hardrict Interview". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. March 7, 2011.
“Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.”
“I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.”

Source : Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.153, University of Iowa Press

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