"I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers."

-- Susan Meiselas

#Perspective Quotes #Tourists Quotes #Encounters Quotes

“If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one â€“ a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.”
“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.”
“Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.”
“Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.”
“Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldnâ€™t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.”
“God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.”
“Letâ€™s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.”
“It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.”

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