“As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wish someone had told me then that the most personally important pictures you’ll ever make are those about you and your life. I’m glad I had the chance to work for some great magazines, but I really miss those little everyday images, the ones that take place in and around your own life, which will never make the news. Don’t sell yourself short: photograph your own life, not just everyone else’s.” TryingLittlesImportantStoriesWishChanceFocusMissingNewsSellsEverydayPhotographGladMagazinesEmergingExclusionPhotojournalistsYourself Short Author:David Burnett
“I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it.” WayFeelsMadeSometimesFeelingsWishInfluencePaintingSellsSellingRepeats Author:Peter Doig
“It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.” FilmPoliticalDeathWishBlackWhiteForeverProductsSellsFinancialHospitalsShadeFear Of DeathLive ForeverPharmaceuticalDoomsday Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“What people "want" is a function of what they learn is available. If you wish to sell something, you'd better understand that you can't give people what they want in the market today, because what they want today is what they can already get. You have to discover what they really want, and find some way to give that physical shape.” PeopleIfsWayWantGivingTodayWishShapesFunctionSellsAvailable Author:Erik Naggum
“I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.” ThinkingWishDealsSellsMaking MoneySelf-importance Author:Zora Neale Hurston
“Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldDoeStillsFormWishSinImagineLaborShameSlaverySellsSlaveProfitExploitsUnwillingAbolish Author:Leo Tolstoy
“People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.” PeopleShouldTwoWishAbilityDealsSucceedSkillsShould HaveSells Author:Shiv Khera
“Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.” ThinkingRealDreamWishPerfectCarSeriousRight NowSellsBoringTicketsBangkok Author:Shonda Rhimes
“When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.” LooksArtHelpingWishObjectsWindowSellsStoresDevotional Author:W. H. Auden