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Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.”

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.”

Littles Eye Beauty Saws Seeing Shapes Cameras Photograph Lenses

Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!”

Sometimes Worst Photography Cameras Refuse Dust Bags Lenses Filters Meter Complement Offenders

Author:Ansel Adams

“Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.”

Reason Play Light Eye Photography Shade Superficial Lenses Outlines

Author:Franz Kafka

“The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.”

Believe Christian Religious Century Jew Data Lenses 17th Century

Author:Marvin Olasky

“From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.”

Firsts Moments Tenderness Lenses

Book:Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life

Source: Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life

“From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.”

Firsts Moments Voice Memories Creative Lenses Living Things

Book:Victorian photographs of famous men & fair women

Source: Victorian photographs of famous men & fair women

“It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.”

World Littles Faces Energy Millions Walking Legs Monsters Holes Rational Substance Our Time Pushing Pairs Fabulous Lenses Flexible Observing Dullness Observing The World

Author:Martin Gardner

“Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.”

Structure Titles Peers Lenses Organizational Organizational Structure

Author:Jonathan Ive

“[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.”

Ifs World Reality Views Brain Shapes Educational Outcomes Lenses

Author:Shawn Achor

“The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment.”

Should May Eye Differences Seeing Subjects Return Photography Cameras Photographer Disappointment Obvious Lenses

Book:Photographic seeing

Source: Photographic seeing

“The heart sags. My footprints forget me. I don’t think anything will ever be the same. This is the edge of the cliff and you can’t move, can’t jump. Everything is vertical. With binoculars you can see where you’ll be in an hour. Raindrops collect on the lens. A fine mist. It hides us. It drifts into clocks. Gravity presses your hands. Some hurts never get said. Some get smuggled.”

Thinking Heart Said Hands Moving Hours Hurt Forget Fine Presses Edges Clock Gravity Lenses Cliffs Mist Footprint Raindrops Vertical Forget Me Binoculars

Author:Richard Jackson

“My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.”

Moments Use Shows Film Grows Process Simple Alive Approach Standards Photograph Height Cycles Routine Intensity Decay Lenses Good And Bad Filters Implicit

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.”

Giving Writing Done Giving Up Draws Lenses Never Giving Up

Author:Len Wein

“Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.”

Kind Soul Cameras Caught Destroying Lenses Ardent

Book:So Long, See You Tomorrow

Source: So Long, See You Tomorrow

“This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.”

World Art Self Interest Integrity Curiosity Relate Lenses Self Interest Zoom Wholeheartedness

Author:Maria Popova

“One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.”

“When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'”

Want Looks Happens Lenses When Things Go Wrong Raising Money

Author:Ben Horowitz

“Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .”

Knows Feels Joy Term Existence Our Lives Demand Capable Aspect Honestly Pursuit Empowering Relative Lenses Erotic Evaluate Kinky Scrutinize

Author:Audre Lorde

“You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.”

Ifs Knows Life Giving Mean Doe Ends Light Knowledge Learning Degrees Capacity Management Lenses Transparency Beam

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.”

May Persons Lying Knowledge Learning Perspective Management Self Knowledge Lenses

Book:On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

Source: On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

“Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.”

People Should Use Home Morning Crazy Wake Up Waking Lenses Waking Up In The Morning

Author:Sarah Chalke

“Why did I lose? No reason, though you might like to know that I got tired, my ears started popping, the rubber came off my shoes, I got cramp, and I lost one of my contact lenses. Other than that I was in great shape.”

Knows Reason Might Lost Loses Shapes Ears Tired Shoes Contact Tennis No Reason Lenses Rubber Popping Lost Ones Cramps Contact Lenses

Author:Bob Lutz

“It’s this perspective of us as humans to look at our world through the lens of ‘normal’ [that] is one of the forces that stops us developing real solutions.”

World Humans Looks Real Force Perspective Normal Solutions Developing Our World Lenses

Author:Justin Hall

“The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.”

World Needs Answers Seeing Questioning Lenses Need A Change Naturalist

Author:Janine Benyus

“We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.”

Strongest Inward Lenses Filters

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“When you are working well with your energy, you are also making the best expression of your personal power... By reading your own energy, by becoming aware of the lens through which you see your world, you can change your mind and change your life.”

World Mind Wells Reading Energy Change Vision Power Awareness Expression Becoming Lenses Changing Your Life Making Changes Personal Power Changing Your Mind

Author:Caroline Myss

“[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures.”

Thinking Humans Country Inspiration Desire Motivation Choices Culture Belief Universal Assumption Lenses Innate

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.” This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.”

Kind Said Hard Girl Jokes Cameras Clubs Welcome Not Sure Tonight Lenses Describing Camera Lenses Torres

Author:Jim Bouton

“I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!”

Way Bigs Eye Hair Personality Blind Contact Shy Lenses Turning Points Big Eyes Contact Lenses

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.”

“As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.”

World Mind Children Stills Eye Age Remember Grew Perception Grew Up Consequence Bounds Clarity Inevitable Dull Intensity Grey Lenses

Book:Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

Source: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

“Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps”

World War Of The Worlds Lenses Without God Warp

Author:Ann Voskamp

“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens—but maybe if it’s how you see them,that’s how they really are.It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.”

People Ifs Mind Sometimes Whole Beautiful Fall Millions Tree Special Like You Forests Lenses

Book:The Summer I Turned Pretty

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

“A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.”

Writing Stories Photographer Lenses Good Story

Author:Habib Umar bin Hafiz

“I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.”

Would Be Age Sex Race Lenses

Author:Rita Dove

“Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.”

Thinking World Love Inspirational Two Different Use Choices Fear Views Vision Seeing Determine Inspirational Love Lenses Worldview Representing Power Of Choice Love And Fear

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed”

World Might Wanted Views Changed Western Lenses

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.”

World Views Situation Perspective Lenses

Author:Debbie Ford

“In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.”

Wells Funny Politics Air Politician Noise Mexico Lenses Funny Political Politics Funny Funny Politician Air Conditioner

Author:Len Deighton

“Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.”

Art Eye Mistake Art Is Lenses Posterity Beholder Eye Of The Beholder

Author:Len Wein

“You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.”

Inspirational Needs Views New Life Lenses Lecturer

Author:Marianne Williamson

“In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.”

Ifs Trying Looks Light Culture Emphasis Lenses Tactics Try Again Unreasonable

Author:Alan Dundes

“We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.”

Whole Values Inspiring Economic Gender Chains Lenses

Author:Paul Polman

“It is a form of violence, to not see a being for who he or she really is. You think, "Oh, that's my son." But the lens, "my son," completely obliterates the multi- dimensions of that being. Maybe you only see your disappointments in that child, or you aspirations for that child, but that's not the child.”

Thinking Children Form Violence Son Perspective Disappointment Aspiration Dimensions My Son Lenses

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.”

Way Whole Wanted Film Creative Danger Position Right Now Originals Cameras Be Creative Lenses Spinning Thrust Assignments

Author:David Alan Harvey

“Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.”

World Life Jobs Lenses

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the 'third' eye. Just like the two seeing eyes, the third eye possesses a lens, cornea, and retina. It is light-sensitive and helps regulate body temperature and skin coloration-two basic survival functions related to environmental light.”

Source: DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences

“The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.”

Way Looks Celebration Lenses

Author:Dewitt Jones

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