"Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold."

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Source : W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

W. Eugene Smith

#Distance Quotes #Limits Quotes #Horizon Quotes

“I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.”
“If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.”
“The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.”

Source : Newton Lee (2015). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.191, Springer
“It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.”
“To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.”
“I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.”

Source : "Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh" by Bhagat Singh, (p. 65), 1986.
“If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?”
“No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.”

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