"I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time."

-- Andy Warhol

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Focus Quotes

“I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.”

Source : "Fictional character: Gene Kranz". "Apollo 13", www.imdb.com. 1995.
“No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.348, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole.”
“In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.”
“Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings, washed, combed, and in their Sunday best.... [They] are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality... They simply look out of place in black clothes and stiff collar, since clearly they belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Great Ice Age. These ox-like men are descendants of those who always stayed behind.”

Source : "The Old World in the New". Book by Edward Alsworth Ross, edition.cnn.com. 1914.
“I've had a tremendous career and I get more phone calls from people who've been on 'X Factor' asking how they get on the ships. The ships are a very lucrative job for any singer and I would advise any singer to go and work on them and try it for a while. If you are not good enough, you will not get on.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“When it comes to trans people, we have to acknowledge their humanity and their dignity and listen to their voices and celebrate their courage. So much of the legislation that's happening across the world right now is not about bathrooms. It's about whether or not trans people have the right to exist in public and that's horrible. So many of our leaders are making an effort to erase trans people from our society and that angers me so much. I want to do everything in my power to stop that.”

Source : Source: www.usmagazine.com
“Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.”

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