"All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself."

-- Chuck Close

#Photography Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Process Quotes

“I would give anything to escape myself, Flynn thought, just for a day, just for a minute even. Just to know what it was like to think differently, to feel differently, and to not be me.”
“The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.”

Source : Kenneth Rand (1914). “The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...”
“If things aren't as successful as you thought they would be, sometimes that's not the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes that can be the best thing to push you in another direction that you were supposed to go in. Or to have an experience that you were supposed to have to grow.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.”
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
“We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.”
“The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.”
“When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.”

Source : James H. Austin (2011). “Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen”, p.12, MIT Press

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