"People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story"."

-- Ken Burns

#People Quotes #History Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.”

Source : Maxwell Maltz (2002). “New Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.170, Penguin
“We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.”
“Television â€“ a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.”
“They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.”

Source : Malcolm Cowley (1982). “The view from 80”, Penguin Books, 1982
“My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.”
“It was never about sort of being famous. I just wanted to be good at what I did.”
“It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”
“We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.”

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