"When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatanâ€”at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth."

-- Hiroshi Sugimoto

#Character Quotes #People Quotes #Photographer Quotes

“I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.”
“You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.”
“But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict”

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2013). “The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World”, p.203, Harvard Business Press
“Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.”
“Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.”
“I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.”
“The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.”
“Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.”

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