"I just get the will to do it.Â I donâ€™t plan a photograph in advanceâ€¦Â I work by impulse.Â No philosophy.Â No ideas.Â Not by the head but by the eyes.Â Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes."

-- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#Philosophy Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.”
“... I feel the American public would be in a better position to exercise freedom of dietary choice if it were stated in bold print on the Goals and Food Selection pages that the value of dietary change remains controversial and that science cannot at this time insure that an altered diet will provide improved protection from certain killer diseases such as heart disease and cancer.”
“Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.....Anybody who has to live with the people, who covers police stations, covers county courts, brought up that way, has to have a degree of humanity that people who do not have that exposure don't have, and some people interpret that to be liberal. It's not a liberal, it's humanitarian and that's a vastly different thing.”
“Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don't miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out”
“I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.”
“I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.”
“Iâ€™m more comfortable with myself than when I was younger. I hated myself then. Wait, I didnâ€™t hate myself â€“ thatâ€™s a strong word. But I was so diffident. I didnâ€™t know how to act, for one. I had no confidence in that area or in myself at all, really. I had a big inner critic and still do. I just donâ€™t listen to it so much.”
“People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.”

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