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“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits, the conventions he must obey, his prescribed or freely chosen subject matter - as constituting both an opportunity and a restraint.”

Mean Matter Opportunity Challenges Subjects Style Materials Available Chosen Painter Conventions Restraint Subject Matter

Book:Sense of Sight

Source: Sense of Sight

“Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?”

“I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing and directing myself usually deal with the darker side of the human psyche and excruciating social faux pas. I often deal in taboos and the subjects I do as a stand-up are quite challenging. But my film roles have been much more fun and escapist.”

Writing Humans Has Beens Bigs Film Fun Social Sides Challenges Deals Roles Subjects Type Comedian Odd Taboo Human Psyche Escapists Faux Darker Side Faux Pas

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.”

Law Challenges Subjects Claims Lays Denied Inheritance Attorney Descent

Book:Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to be subject proof. Because you usually only have a few minutes with the person. You never know who's going to walk into the room - whether they're going to be friendly, grumpy, sick of photographers, or between meetings.”

Knows Persons Reason Challenges Walks Rooms Minutes Subjects Shots Sick Meetings Photographer Proof Friendly Grumpy

Author:Gregory Heisler

“One of the top challenges is the fact that you are dealing with survivors. Every time you deal with a documentary film subject it is fraught with obvious minefields but when you are dealing with a population that is severely traumatized and trying to recover from that trauma there is an extra level of vigilance and care and attention that has to be implemented all the time at every level.”

Trying Facts Care Film Challenges Levels Deals Attention Subjects Population Obvious Trauma Extras Survivor Documentaries Vigilance Minefields Documentary Films

Author:Amy Ziering

“The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction I think it’s almost imperative that you identify an audience so you can confirm or challenge or undermine whatever ideas or prejudices they might have about your subject.”

Thinking Should Writing Ideas Might Challenges Audience Subjects Prejudice Shoulders Over You Nonfiction Imperatives

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“When faced with demanding situations, can you keep your heart as light as a feather? Can you laugh your way through challenges and maintain an attitude freer than fear? When confronted with upsets and the poisonous projections of others, can you remember that all is well? Do you know that you are a spiritual being, not subject to the whims and caprices of earthly tides?”

Knows Way Wells Heart Light Remember Spiritual Challenges Attitude Situation Laughing Subjects Upset Do You Know Tides Feathers Projection Whim Poisonous Spiritual Beings Caprice

Author:Alan Cohen

“Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational history, so to find a new discursive space, a space to wander around those subject matters, is a real challenge.”

Important Real Matter Challenges Space Subjects Difficulty Photographer Wander Ambiguity Subject Matter

Author:Larry Sultan

“...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in form or in composition or in subject matter, but more ordinary, that's the challenge.”

Thinking Matter Form Challenges Rooms Subjects Wall Findings Ordinary Dramatic Composition Lighting Subject Matter Off The Wall

Author:Larry Sultan