"It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography."

-- Ralph Gibson

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“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”

Source : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.342, Macmillan
“The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.”
“It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.”
“New Customers come from the action of past customers”
“I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.”
“I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.”

Source : "In Conversation: Andre Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.
“There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.”
“Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didnâ€™t know how to read the signs.”

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