"I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best."

-- Fernand Point

“We shouldn't confuse the pleasure of being articulate about wine, of being able to describe the distinctive features of a wine, with the non-verbal ability of remembering what they are like, or of appreciating them without being able to say why”
“Money is human happiness in the abstract.”
“I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.”
“I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.”
“Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.”
“You must never feel badly about making mistakes,”
“I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.”

Source : Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”
“The same thought... crosses my mind whenever someone tells me there's something I can't do: Try Stopping Me.”

Source : Anthony Robles (2012). “Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated: How I Became a Champion”, p.102, Penguin

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