“I can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.” ThinkingI CanUsedStageGlassesPairsContractsLenses Author:Tommy Bolin
“To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book, or that they are agents of change to some degree. In other words, the lens is focused deeply and intensely on the female characters and doesn't waver, which allows for a glimpse into the rich inner lives of the characters.” WayBookCharacterLiteratureDealsRichFeminismDegreesConcernFemaleFocusedAgentsGlimpseLensesInner LifeFemale CharactersThematic Author:Laurie Foos
“I shot the way I wanted to shoot [in The Hateful Eight]. The only real disadvantage I felt at the time, but I don't feel now, was that we weren't able to get a zoom lens, and I had really gotten used to using a zoom lens for that little zoom creep. But it was also a nice thing to be forced to not use all the tools that you've gotten used to, from time to time, and to be able to work in a different way.” WayFeelsLittlesDifferentRealUseAbleWantedUsedFeltNiceShotsToolsEightDifferent WaysLensesHatefulCreepsDisadvantagesNice ThingsZoom Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his hand up and pretended to focus his eye. It was a joke, but it added mystery to the picture. There's a sense of action in a very small world. Or with Allen Ginsberg there were people smoking cigarettes and in the smoke there's a sense of motion. It makes much out of very little.” PeopleWorldLittlesHandsEyeActionFocusMysteryJokesPhotographerFocusedSmokeHis EyesSmokingCigaretteLensesFrogsProminentHands UpSmoking CigarettesSmall WorldGinsberg Author:John Loengard
“In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.” KnowsHandsSpiritualStrongBirthStrongerPreparationMealsFuneralLensesCeremonyWashingEthiopiaFocal Point Author:Marcus Samuelsson
“Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.” IfsNeedsShouldChildrenSchoolResultsKnowingEnvironmentCollegeLowsIncreaseMissionsIncomeProvidingOddsLensesAttendingPublic EducationLow IncomeLearning Environment Author:Jeb Bush
“Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.” PoliticalBeastLensesIt Is What It Is Author:Jeb Bush
“In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this: In studying any object with the microscope we use different lenses and turn the mirror in various ways; each change brings out some new wonder and beauty. So it is for those who are not Greek or Hebrew scholars, and who use the work of scholars to open the meaning of the exhaustible Word-the Bible is richer than any single version can fully show.” WayDifferentHelpingUseShowsTurnsWonderCasesStudyObjectsDrawsMirrorsDelightVariousVersionsGreekScholarLensesTranslationsHebrewMicroscopesPuzzled Author:Amy Carmichael
“There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.” HumanityTownsLifetimeVariousReportersLensesGuiseGrounding Author:Terry Pratchett
“If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.” IfsReasonOrderImaginationFocusDeeperIrrationalRetreatLensesWorldviewGrasping Author:Alister E. McGrath
“The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.” GivingTryingMindFatherViewsDoubtEventsBenefitsProofFleshDominantLensesBenefit Of The DoubtMarqueeScrolling Author:James MacDonald
“If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.” IfsWantLooksUseAbleTheoryPerspectiveDisciplineManagementMarketingAvailableFinanceLensesEquityAnomaliesRebecca Author:Clayton Christensen
“No film is made without the people behind the lens. Of course, most people, even I, tend to look at films in the most simplistic way, and say, "Wow, so-and-so is in this film." We talk about who's in it, as opposed to who got it made. But there are financial and technical aspects which go along with it, that should be addressed and acknowledged, including those minorities who are doing excellent work as well.” PeopleWayShouldWellsLooksMadeFilmCoursesBehindsAspectIncludingFinancialExcellentMinoritiesWowLensesExcellent Work Author:Melvin Van Peebles
“What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.” KindReasonTermSpaceOutsidersSovereignLensesExileNobility Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.” SaidRacePovertyCasesParticularProjectsLenses Author:Bryan Stevenson
“I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.” ThinkingWorldFeelsSidesGonePeriodsAweMelancholyCoinsLensesFlip Author:Laurel Nakadate
“I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before, which was a risk, but it made it interesting. My relationship with food has been complicated and rocky and not always wonderful, and it's a lens through which my entire life and identity are refracted.” WritingTryingHas BeensMadeDifferentDoneInterestingWonderfulRiskIdentityTraditionComplicatedMade ItLenses Author:Kate Christensen
“What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.” WantReaderComfortableWhat You WantLensesEraseCognitiveDissonanceCognitive Dissonance Author:Chris Abani
“Many nightclubs from this era were very loud and very dark. Plus some of the best ones were incredibly crowded. To begin with, I could seldom get back far enough to get people into frame from head to foot and when I could, people would be constantly walking in front of me all the time. Then I bought a 24-mm lens and only had to be four or five feet away.” PeopleEnoughWould BeDarkFiveFourFeetFrontsWalkingErasLoudPlusGet BackLensesCrowdedNightclubs Author:Derek Ridgers
“I admire narcissism in Momus and others who "own" it and use it as a way to explore ideas/themselves and also as a form of humor. I don't think of myself as narcissistic, but I'm definitely incredibly self absorbed. I guess I wonder if seeing the world through the lens of yourself is necessarily less valid than other ways of thinking/seeing though.” IfsThinkingWorldWayIdeasSelfUseFormWonderSeeingAdmireNarcissismLensesWay Of ThinkingNarcissisticSeeing The WorldSelf Absorbed Author:Marie Calloway
“Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive.” CamerasExpensiveLenses Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.” NeedsMeanPersonsLongDifficultSpaceFocusCamerasDistanceLenses Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.” NeedsHas BeensHardThreeFocusImpossibleFeetModernCarCamerasLensesNon Stop Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow. It's not like you can hide if a subway comes so a lot of things happened because of that. Or a thousand people just came and looked straight into the lens like they didn't expect a movie to be shooting.” PeopleIfsLittlesHappenedLike YouThousandThings HappenShootingLittle ThingsPlatformsLensesSubway Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“We were in the middle of a sandbar in the middle of the ocean with no one around, and still someone was following me from New York, and was hiding in some bushes like a mile away with a long lens, so he still got pictures. It was really an eye opener to how you really have to be careful about being followed everywhere. I was trying to go to the most remote place in the world, I was out on a sandbar in the middle of the ocean, and they still found me. It was definitely a very new experience.” WorldTryingLongStillsEyeFoundMiddleNew YorkOceanCarefulFollowingMilesHidingBe CarefulLensesPlaces In The WorldNew ExperiencesMiles AwayRemote Places Author:Ronda Rousey
“There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me every Saturday night for 7 or 8 years. Sean and I started taking lessons with them and they gave us a great foundation in bluegrass instrumentation. They were the lens through which I saw music for a very long time.” YearsLongNightParentSawsBrotherLessonsBandLong TimeFoundationMy BrotherEtcSaturdayLensesGigsSaturday NightSeanSan DiegoBluegrassInstrumentation Author:Sara Watkins
“Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.” FirstsHealingStepsApproachGenderHelpfulFirst StepsLensesPersonalized Author:Jed Diamond
“Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.” IfsSpeakInternetCostPaperComputerContactChineseOnlinePrintTranslateBiographiesLensesChipsPenniesScrapBlinkSubtitlesContact Lenses Author:Michio Kaku
“I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.” WantPhotographStaringLenses Author:Feist
“The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.” IfsHas BeensMadeStillsEmotionalPoetHorrorLegendsExistentialSevereLensesExtremityWork And Life Author:Christian Wiman
“Do I believe the execution will work out? Les Moonves said yes to Survivor based partly upon my show Eco-Challenge. He liked my way of filming outdoors. It was the first use of helicopters on a documentary with the gyro-stabilized lenses. And a certain beauty of filming, allowing the drops to fall from a leaf into a puddle, allowing a spider to weave a web. Taking the breath to allow that to happen rather than showing scene after scene.” WayFirstsBelieveSaidUseShowsHappensCertainFallI BelieveChallengesSceneBreathsWork OutMy WayAllowingSurvivorExecutionLeafsDocumentariesLensesSpidersHelicoptersEcoPuddles Author:Scott Raab
“This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to create it. You have to see it. You have to seize it and you have to move in to get it, so those lenses are just an escape of some sort or a shield.” KnowsWholeMovingLike YouRidiculousCaptureLensesShields Author:Carol Friedman
“As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.” NeedsSeemsEyeJusticePerfectBeautyVisionSeeingPicksShotsGardenSightCamerasPhotographerUglyNakedEaseLensesPeripheryNaked Eyes Book:A Gentle Plea for Chaos Source: A Gentle Plea for Chaos
“Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work.” KnowsBelieveImportantBodyBehindsAttitudePhotographyCamerasPhotographerPatternsLinkedLensesInterferenceLife Attitude Author:Bill Jay
“We always think from where we come from. We always think from the sources that shape our understanding. I think about the world through the lens of my Islamic tradition. I accept this but I must also have intellectual humility.” ThinkingWorldUnderstandingAcceptingHumilitySourceShapesIntellectualTraditionIslamicLensesWhere We ComeIntellectual Humility Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.” FacesAudienceStagePerformancesCamerasYour FaceLensesDepictionCamera LensesStage Performance Author:Amanda Schull
“We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to result in seeing through your lenses, and once you express how you see things to others, you start to see there are similarities between all people. It's kind of like, no matter how far you go, you're still where you started, in a way.” PeopleWayKindStillsMatterPlayWholeSeemsResultsSeeingAbstractBeing YourselfLensesSimilarity Author:Q-Tip
“When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.” AbleAliveListeningLensesViewpoints Author:Tori Amos
“There's just something about getting up, putting it out there, and getting this exchange of energy. Whether your audience is a camera lens, or live theater, or whatever it is, just putting that out there and getting it back is just an honor.” EnergyAudienceHonorTheaterCamerasLensesLive TheaterCamera Lenses Author:Lauren Bowles
“I really love it, I love working with directors that are very collaborative and allow me input. I've done over 75 films, it's just like you're an apprentice. You learn so much about camerawork, lenses, and I'm always talking about DPs and directors and they always give me lists. I think pretty soon, I'll be ready to move away from being in front of the camera.” ThinkingGivingDoneFilmMovingTalkingFrontsReadyLike YouDirectorsGive MeCamerasListsLensesInputApprentice Author:John Leguizamo
“The good news is we are seeing an incredible surge in non-animal technologies in laboratories. With researchers using stem cells, visually impaired people may one day have new corneas and lenses grown from their own cells. That is likely to be a more effective and cheaper approach than using animals.” PeopleMayAnimalTechnologySeeingOne DayApproachNewsIncrediblesCellsStemGood NewsLensesLaboratoryCheaperResearchersStem Cell Author:Wayne Pacelle
“I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful, it is unrealistic. This approach leaves Syria as a broken country and a breeding ground for extremists for decades.” ThinkingCountryFacesBrokenApproachDecadesSyriaLensesDoing NothingSlaughterExtremistShamefulBreeding Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary, rework our conception of human importance, but also to ensure that our best conception is indeed the lens through which we look at our fellow human beings.” IfsHumansLooksHuman BeingsEffortFocusEthicsStandingImportanceFellowsObligationConceptionLensesRework Author:Alice Crary
“Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.” TreeAwarenessAppreciationWideForestsAngleLensesLimbsTree Limbs Author:Doc Childre
“Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see.” WorldWayUseCertainDancingSmellCooksArchitectLenses Author:Jillian Hervey
“My writer and I sat down and wrote a huge list of names of women to consider. It was really important to us to have a broad range of women from across generations and cultures. We didn't want to make it Western-focused, we wanted to make sure it was international and that it had an intersectional lens.” WantImportantWantedCultureNamesGenerationsHugeDown AndWesternInternationalFocusedListsRangeSatBroadsLenses Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.” PeopleWorldI CanDarkViewsRelateAffectedLensesWorld ViewDark Times Author:Rainn Wilson
“If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because the viewer wants to create a type of narrative around the political theme when they look at work depicting black and brown models.” IfsWantLooksStillsPoliticalBlackPaintingTypeModelsFruitNarrativeThemeBrownBowlsViewersLenses Author:Kehinde Wiley
“People with antisocial personality disorders aren't automatically bad - they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people's weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren't a different species. They're a part of our spectrum.” PeopleWorldWayWantDifferentAbilityPersonalityApproachEmpathyWeakSpeciesSpotsCombinationDisorderLensesSpectrumRuthlessAntisocialLack Of EmpathyPersonality DisordersWeak Spots Author:Eden Robinson
“I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it.” ThinkingBehindsFrontsAreasLenses Author:Alexa Chung