"Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures."

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Source : "The intimacy of strangers". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

Elliott Erwitt

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“At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.”
“I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me”
“...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms”

Source : James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.84, Courier Corporation
“College was pivotal for me. It broadened my horizons, taught me to think and question, and introduced me to many things - such as art and classical music - that had not previously been part of my life. I went to college thinking that I might teach history in high school or that I might seek a career in the retail industry, probably working for a department store, something I had done during the holidays while in high school. I came out of college with plans to do something that had never crossed my mind four years earlier.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.”
“I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.”
“Sometimes I think of Abraham How one star he saw had been lit for me He was a stranger in this land And I am that, no less than he And on this road to righteousness Sometimes the climb can be so steep I may falter in my steps But never beyond your reach”

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