"When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, "Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer.""

-- Josef Koudelka

#Photography Quotes #Gentleman Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.”
“If you haven't failed yet, you haven't tried anything.”
“The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.”

Source : Interview with Lucia Newman, www.cnn.com. January 8, 1997.
“No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.”
“Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
“I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me.”
“Boredom forces you to ring people you havenâ€™t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.”
“Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity”

Source : Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.277

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