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“For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.”

Looks Reason Goal Interest Memories Careers Records Subjects Pure Photography Trade Photographer Refuse Tricks Betray Reporters Documents Lenses Virtuosity

Author:Andre Kertesz

“As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.”

Doe Self Facts Memories Known Subjects Self Love Spots Faculty Warning Flags Flattering Frail

Book:Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus

“Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.”

Needs Two Stories Values Memories Company Subjects Ought Exhausted Repetition Defects Good Memories

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.”

Interest Memories Attention Subjects Depends Concentration Good Memories

Book:名人語錄

Source: 名人語錄

“The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.”

Reason Memories Subjects Materials Research Block Reason Why Visible Copies Concrete Sculptors Sculpting

Author:Jacques Barzun

“I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful of subjects like inverse probability that would turn Fisher in the briefest possible moment from extreme urbanity into a boiling cauldron of wrath, you got by with little worse than a thick head from the port which he, like the Cambridge mathematician J. E. Littlewood, loved to drink in the evening. And on the credit side you gained a cherished memory of English spoken in a Shakespearean style and delivered in the manner of a Spanish grandee.”