"The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you."

-- Tito Colliander

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“If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.”
“The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.”
“One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.”
“If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread.”

Source : Ocean Pleasant Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.”
“I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.”
“Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.”
“Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.”

Source : Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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