"I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes. Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes."

-- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

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“It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.”
“nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea.”

Source : Golden MacDonald, Margaret Wise Brown (1946). “The little island”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers
“When you play guitar you are drawing a frame around a moment and saying to the listener, 'Here is how I want you to experience this. How you begin and end a solo is framing, How you structure a song is framing, how you present yourself onstage is framing. See every corner, not just the center, framing should heighten the impact of the art and give clarity to your vision.”
“Pain is not something to be feared; it is something to be understood.”

Source : "The No. 1 Move to Do for a Pain-Free Body" by Pete Egoscue, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2016.
“Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.”
“I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 - like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck.”
“I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.”

Source : Jackson Pearce (2011). “Sisters Red”, p.154, Hachette UK
“The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence â€” and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.”

Source : "Carl Anderson. Some notes about his life and work at Caltech. The first of a series of biographical sketches of Caltech faculty members". Engineering and Science, Volume 15:1, October 1951.

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