"I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Done Quotes #Definitions Quotes #Constrain Quotes

“You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.”
“Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.”
“Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.”
“We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.”

Source : "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work". Book by Shawn Achor, September 14, 2010.
“I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message.”

Source : Roy DeCarava, Peter Galassi, Sherry Turner DeCarava, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1996). “Roy DeCarava, a retrospective”, ABRAMS
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

Source : God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)
“Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.”

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