"My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me."

-- Roy DeCarava

#People Quotes #Survival Quotes #Important Quotes

“When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nationâ€™s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.”

Source : Riane Eisler (2009). “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics: Easyread Large Edition”, p.351, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.”
“A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.”

Source : Source: the-talks.com
“tend to be better at describing feelings and ideas, and worse at painting a picture of any physical thing. I have terrible spatial reasoning skills so even if I were describing my girlfriend, whom I see every day, it sound like I was talking about a child's drawing of her. "Very beautiful. Glasses. Brown hair. Super smart brain. Bigger than our dog. Smaller than me".”
“Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No oneâ€™s hands are fast enough.”
“There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad bet can be the most dangerous outcome of all, because a success of that kind can encourage you to take more bad bets in the future, when the odds will be running against you. You can also lose a good bet no matter how sound the underlying proposition, but if you keep placing good bets, over time, the law of averages will be working for you.”
“If you want different, you have to think and act different.”
“A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.”

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