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“Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.”

Life Mind Heart Freedom Path Unique Flow Surrender Authenticity Refuge Lenses

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.”

Thinking Kind Art Art Is Lenses

Author:Dan Colen

“I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.”

Ifs Men Long Wonder Watches Focus Crime Prove Ethics Window Commit Ethical Lenses Binoculars Rear Window

Author:John Michael Hayes

“Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.”

Trying Stories Pieces Music Is Phrases Who We Are Lenses

Author:Charles Hazlewood

“My interest in the space program has a certain purity to it because I recognize the romance of it but I was never seduced by it. That allowed me to view it through a more purely scientific lens. My interest in space while in school came about through my scientific activities.”

School Romance Certain Interest Space Views Activity Program Purity Lenses Space Program

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.”

Trying Has Beens Humanity Social Balance Conscience Manage Lenses Starbucks Profitability

Author:Howard Schultz

“We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to. So I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.”

Thinking Knows Different Talking Opinion Personality Versions Nervous Interviews Print Hiding Accurate Lenses

Author:Emma Stone

“I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.”

I Can Light Film Property Vocabulary Lenses Cameraman Optics

Author:Sydney Pollack

“Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.”

Ifs World Way Different Individual Products Perspective Innovation Insight Different Ways Aphorism Execution Inquiry Lenses Innovative Brilliance Innovators

Author:Gary Hamel

“In a period piece, particularly a fantasy, the lighting is your own choice, the lenses are your own choice. It's really a great thing for a cinematographer to do. Everything is open for you. You can even be more creative and you can use more shadows than usual.”

Use Choices Fantasy Creative Pieces Periods Shadow Great Things Usual Lenses Lighting Cinematographers

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces, I'll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I'll do whatever I need to do to create a character.”

Needs Looks Character Eye School Actors Acting Pieces Green Contact Noses Lenses Wigs Contact Lenses

Author:Nicolas Cage

“I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.”

World Stills Orthodox Lenses Choir

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“The menu of this kitchen will have more than soup; it will serve as an opportunity to explore the vast untapped power of food as a force for participatory democracy, as a means of empowerment for those who have little and as a lens through which we embrace, and in fact relish, our differences but see and live through our commonalities. If you eat, then you are a part of this.”

Ifs Mean Littles Facts Opportunity Force Differences Democracy Empowerment Embrace Kitchen Soup Lenses Relish Menus Commonality Participatory Democracy

Author:Sam Kass

“3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing their movie another five or six percent and they don't know really how to do it, they should care how to do it better by bringing other directors and collaborators into their lives to help teach and instruct how you really make a 3D movie because it's not just like putting a new lens on a camera and forgetting it. It takes a lot of very careful consideration. It will change your approach to where you put the cameras. So, 3D isn't for everybody.”

People Knows Needs Should Done Helping Eye Care Forget Teach Five Directors Six Approach Percent Cameras Sake Careful Consideration Lenses Collaborators

Author:Steven Spielberg

“If you're a certain type of actor, then eventually stepping into a director's shoes is a natural transition. I've always been the actor who's very focused on the narrative, where my character is in the story, and how I can benefit the story. I've always had a technical aspect of what the lens is, how the camera is going to move, how I can feed the information the director applies within that move. If you're that type of actor, narrative-based, technically proficient, the next step is actually not that far.”

Ifs I Can Character Stories Moving Certain Next Actors Natural Steps Information Type Directors Benefits Aspect Cameras Shoes Focused Narrative Transition Lenses Next Steps

Author:Russell Crowe

“I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens sizes and depth of field and how to move the camera and lighting. I do want to direct and I didn't go to film school, so having a director that are very much hands on that way and looking to let me learn, that is a key factor.”

Way Want Hands School Film Moving Bits White Pieces Teaching Fields Keys Directors Direct Let Me Cameras Depth Size Factors Lenses Lighting Film School Bits And Pieces Depth Of Field

Author:Columbus Short

“Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character.”

Character Contact Miserable Lenses Brooding Pouting Contact Lenses

Author:Robert Pattinson

“The best zoom lens is your legs.”

Photography Legs Lenses Zoom

Author:Ernst Haas

“Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.”

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Author:Ernst Haas

“I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.”

Littles Eye Dog Cat Circles Contact Ran Lenses My Dog Contact Lenses

Author:Steven Wright

“The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.”

World Feels Heart Eye Spirit Rich Remains Complexes Persist Lenses Paradigm Interpreting Topography Monochromatic

Book:The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world

Source: The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world

“The most important lens you have is your legs”

Important Photographer Legs Lenses

Author:Ernst Haas

“Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.”

People Needs Compassion Lessons Treats Genuine Unhappy Just One Lenses Happy People Unhappy People

Author:Martha Beck

“You'd come in in the morning and put your contact lenses in and they'd put your makeup on. I tried to stay out of the sun, because the more color you had, the more makeup you had to wear, to cover your color.”

Morning Sun Color Contact Makeup Over You Lenses Contact Lenses

Author:Peter Facinelli

“Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if the wrong lens is on or if you're shooting in the wrong direction but this [performance capture] doesn't miss a thing. So, you might do something that's genius - very rarely, admittedly - but it doesn't miss it.”

Ifs Sometimes Might Happens Film Missing Genius Scene Performances Things Happen Shooting Capture Lenses Wrong Direction

Author:Ray Winstone

“Composition is what's similar between being photographer and director. As a photographer, you're sort of doing everything - you're directing the lights and you're framing and you're moving around. The hardest thing to learn as a director is how cameras have to move. You have to have patience, you have to learn how to look through the lens and then you have to learn to combine all of the compartments into one great image.”

Looks Light Moving Directors Cameras Photographer Hardest Composition Lenses Hardest Thing Having Patience Framing

Author:Russell James

“I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.”

Thinking Believe Important I Believe Forget Degrees Intuition Intellect Lenses

Author:John Hurt

“Teaching is almost like an act of prayer for me. I feel that I am present at the intersection of people and ideas in a very holy way. There are not many places where successful adults can take a break from work or domestic issues and freely and safely explore their inner lives or global issues through an ethical lens.”

People Way Feels Ideas Prayer Break Issues Successful Teaching Holy Adults Ethical Lenses Inner Life Intersections Global Issues

Author:Erica Brown

“There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't matter what the film is about, or even whether it's a narrative or figurative film at all, it's an invitation to step into somebody else's shoes. Even if it's the filmmaker's shoes filming a landscape, you go into somebody else's shoes and you look out of their lens, you look out of their eyes and their imagination. That's what going to the pictures is all about.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Art Matter Eye Film Form Imagination Steps Shoes Landscape Narrative Cinema Filmmaker Lenses Invitations Humanistic

Author:Tilda Swinton

“I'm in regular contact with people who are still in the military-friends, family, people I served with, men and women I taught at West Point-and I look at every military issue through that lens. What they say or think weighs heavily on my mind.”

People Thinking Men Mind Looks Stills Issues Military Taught Men And Women West Contact Lenses Family Friends West Point

Author:Tom Rooney

“There are different levels of fame. There are the polite fans who quietly and respectfully approach you and ask for an autograph - and that's acceptable. But the next level... when you think you're having a moment of privacy and there's someone with a long lens catching you when you're about to eat, or sunbathe, or worse... it's just so intrusive and I think it's part of the sickness of our culture.”

Thinking Long Different Moments Culture Next Asks Levels Fans Fame Approach Sickness Privacy Acceptable Polite Lenses Catching Autographs Next Level Different Levels Catching You

Author:Robert B. Weide

“Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.”

Talking Comedy Stage Acceptance Mere Setting Settings Lenses Primal

Author:Ted Alexandro

“My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.”

“Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch”

Mind Events Bread Instance Ballet Dishes Lenses Erotic Spectators Circus Spectacular Surveillance Numbing Sporting Events

Author:Dean Cavanagh

“It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.”

May Long Important Term Decision Streets Wall Long Term Investors Quarters Ceo Lenses Initials Exit Rushing Optimal

Author:Roelof Botha

“I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.”

Giving Feels Doe Audience Theater Cameras Lenses Grounding

Author:Julian Ovenden

“What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it's not about pattern, but the notion of architecture through the lens of textile, rather than architecture through the lens of brick and mortar.”

Term Conditions Missing Comfortable Organization Critics Notion Patterns Architecture Technique Lenses Bricks Ornaments Mortar Textiles Bricks And Mortar

Author:David Adjaye

“I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.”

Firsts Doe Light Wanted Remember Asks Focus Directors Asking Cameras Errors Lenses Margins Asking Questions Playgrounds

Author:Paul Bettany

“We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of human decency that they think nothing of putting their initials on your eyeglass lenses. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. If a normal woman puts on clothing designed for these unfortunate people, she is quite naturally going to look like Revenge of the Pork Person.”

“The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.”

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached.”

Knows World Sound Acting Obvious Contact Giants Bizarre Lenses Detached Filters True You Contact Lenses

Author:Matthew Rhys

“We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.”

People Feelings Lenses Insignificant

Author:Nichole Nordeman

“My job, as I see it, is to give you a window into another world and another story, and then to be as graceful as I can so that you don't feel my work or the editor's work or the lens or the light or anything.”

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Author:Victor Levin

“You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.”

Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works

“Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.”

Humans Whole Human Beings Creatures Perception Senses Perceive Phrases Wounded Lenses Cracked

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The more money you get, the bigger target you become. That's true. It's sad but it's true that you have to be aware of every person that comes to you with the next greatest deal. You just have to look at every single person with a fine lens. That's the way my life is going to be from here on out.”

Way Looks Persons Life Is Next Deals Fine Bigger Target More Money Lenses Single Person

Author:Reggie Bush

“When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.”

Looks Weakness Evident Irrelevant Lenses

Author:Stephen Covey

“The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

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