“The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard place to get to, honestly. It has taken me many years to get to that place and to define it visually.” IfsYearsHardCultureMy OwnTakenHonestlyPsychologicalEmanate Author:Roger Ballen
“If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture: If the whole thing already exists in my head, then I haven't learned anything. The tension lies between the staging and the unpredictability.” IfsWellsWholeMightLyingTakenToo MuchStageHavensTensionThings ChangeUnpredictabilityStaging Author:Justine Kurland
“My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.” IfsHas BeensSaidLyingIssuesTakenPolicyPositionTorturePrisonerVietnameseOf ContextPow Author:Jane Fonda
“Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators."” IfsGrowsCompanyTakenFailingListsMicrosoftInnovatorsSkype Author:Andy Ihnatko
“I shall never flaunt the little learning that I have acquired through the care and help my father has given me. If I have learned anything, it is only because he took care to teach me. Had he not taken upon himself the trouble of instructing me, I would be as ignorant as many other children.” IfsChildrenLittlesHelpingWould BeCareFatherGivenTeachTakenTroubleIgnorantI Have Learned Author:Augustin-Louis Cauchy
“We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.” IfsWorldMindWarCareActionOpportunityForceNationsWishSleepAbilityKnowingTakenSacrificeMilitaryThanksNightmarePeace Of MindTroopsLimbsOur TroopsMilitary ForceBest Wishes Author:John F. Kerry
“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.” IfsMayMatterCharacterSuccessOpportunityTakenAdvantageUpliftingSentimentsConcreteMaximsReservoirsTaken AdvantageOppurtunity Book:The Heart of William James Source: The Heart of William James
“I get female groupies, but I don't get male groupies. I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action -- as we'd say in Scotland. If I go anywhere near most of our male following, they are freaked. Absolutely freaked. I think my height has got a lot to do with it. I'm really tall. I'm five-eight, and with heels, I'm six foot, so people are like. 'Whoa, Amazon!' People are a wee taken aback by that 'cause I think people expect me to be small.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenActionCausesSleepTakenFiveFeetOffersSixFemaleMalesFollowingEightHeightTallHeelsScotlandAmazonGroupie Author:Shirley Manson
“Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.” PeopleIfsShouldHas BeensI CanHelpingPurposeFatherTakenLessonsInspiredSignificantPurpose Of Life Author:Ziggy Marley
“I think if I had known then what I know now, I would have been a lot more relaxed. I'm really happy with the result and I think Bjorn helped me take it in directions I couldn't have taken it in myself. It is a scary thing to be putting it in other people's hands, but it's really necessary sometimes.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHas BeensSometimesHandsResultsKnownTakenScaryRelaxedReally HappyScary Things Author:Sarah Blasko
“However much pains may be taken to combine the soldier and the citizen in one and the same individual, whatever may be done to nationalize wars, never will it be possible to do away with the professionalism of the business; and if that cannot be done, then those who belong to it will always look upon themselves as a kind of guild, in the regulations, laws, and customs in which the "Spirit of War" finds its expression. It would be very wrong to look down upon this corporate spirit, or esprit de corps, which may and should exist more or less in every Army.” IfsShouldLooksKindMayWarDoneWould BePainLawSpiritIndividualTakenExpressionCitizensArmySoldierCorporateLook UpCustomsRegulationProfessionalismGuildsEsprit De Corps Author:Carl von Clausewitz