"People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in front of a leaf with a dew drop, or a rain drop, and stay there for ages just waiting for the right moment. Sure, people think I'm crazy, but who cares? I see more than they do!"

-- Alfred Eisenstaedt

#Crazy Quotes #Rain Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.”
“One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartesâ€™ argument â€œI think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.”
“The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings.”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
“If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?”
“Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.”
“There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.”

Source : Madison Julius Cawein, “Haunters Of The Silence”
“The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.”

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