A Quotes
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“A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.”
“A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.”
Source: Photography and the art of seeing
“A photographer who wants to see....must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance you put between yourself and your home. If you do not see what is all around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?....Good seeing doesn't ensure good photographs, but good photographic expression is impossible without it.”
“A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.”
“A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.”
“A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.”
“A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever taking personal photographs. Others, audaciously and arrogantly and courageously discharge their most private feelings through photography. Trouble is, sometimes it all adds up to baloney.”
“A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.”
“A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.”
“A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.”
“A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.”
“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed”
“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.”
“A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.”
Source: Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works
“A photographic session is a joint, interpersonal exchange, a kind of creative encounter session at a high level of intensity. For me, photography is more a process of creating an experience than one of looking for pictures.”
“A photon at rest has no mass (no mass, no energy) and at the speed of light all of the energy is stored as a change over time and distance traveled, in other words, frequency. Does the photon disappear when it is absorbed by the electron? This would not make sense, we are not talking about particles. The scientist has not figured out that the measurement has become more real than the thing being measured.”
Source: The Philosophy of Fractals
“A photon is defined as a package of light-what are you defined as?”
Source: Little Lovely Things
“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition, and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.”
“A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.”
“A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.”
“A physical attraction is often desired above many things but you'll discover it to be short lived. Find yourself someone that gets under your skin, seduces the dusty corners of your heart, and provides you with a mental connection. That is when you'll know true intimacy.”
“A physical cross is the death of our bodies. A spiritual cross is the death of our will. While you might not be called to take up a physical cross in your lifetime, you are still called to take up a spiritual cross every day.”
Source: A Leader Worth Imitating: 33 Leadership Principles From the Life of Jesus
“A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.”
“A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.”
Source: The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world
“A physical wound may heal, but a spiritual one may last for ever”
“A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”
“A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.”
“A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.”
“A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.”
“A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.”
“A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right is doing; it should be taken without a thought, without a look, without a move of the facial muscles; the true physician should hardly be aware that the last friendly grasp of the hand has been made more precious by the touch of gold”
“A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first study all the factors, including environment, which influence a patient's disease, and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure.”
“A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.”
“A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.”
“A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.”
“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.”
“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.”
“A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic."”
“A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.”
Source: Facing Up
“A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.”
“A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.”
“A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.”
Source: Bertrand Russell on God and Religion
“A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.”
“A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism, but their people seem to be able to get on with their work without worrying unduly. Only Darwinians seem thrown into a frenzy that sends them running to litigation and demanding censorship. His explanation was that it's a rival religion.”
“A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'”
“A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen”
“A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.”
“A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.”