"You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are."

-- Anna Quindlen

#Inspirational Quotes #Design Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.”
“Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.”
“You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.”
“Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally.”
“Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.”

Source : Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 23, 2004.
“I can only be responsible for my orders. I cannot be responsible for all the acts of Himmler.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.30, New York Review of Books
“What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.”

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