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#1

“Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”
― Thomas Friedman

tags: change, optimism, pessimism

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#2

“No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)”
― Jeffrey R. Holland

tags: optimism, pessimism

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#3

“I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.”
― Clint Eastwood

tags: believe, forge, pessimism

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#4

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters

tags: intellect, intelligence, optimism, pessimism, science, will

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#5

“Home is the nicest word there is.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

tags: home

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#6

“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.”
― Lauren Myracle

tags: funny, home, life

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#7

“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: home, lover, person

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#8

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: decoration, friends, home, homemaking, house, visitors

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#9

“Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.”
― Dennis Lehane

tags: happiness, home

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#10

“If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

tags: contentment, desire, home, satisfaction

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#11

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

tags: beauty, life, photo, photograph, photography, photos, picture, pictures

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#12

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Dorothea Lange

tags: life, photography

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#13

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant

tags: black-and-white, color, photography, street-photography

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#14

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: art, photography

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#15

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

tags: artist, camera, photography

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#16

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: photographs, photography

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#17

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

tags: art, perseverance, photography

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#18

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: cameras, photography

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#19

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
― Edward Weston

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#20

“What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. ”
― William Albert Allard

tags: photography, simplicity

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#21

“No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It’s the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.”
― Joe McNally, The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters

tags: photography

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#22

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
― Ansel Adams

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#23

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: art, photography

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#24

“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: god, inspirational, photography, timing

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#25

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, cod, fish, humor, images, inspirational, photography

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#26

“The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.”
― Don Chadwick

tags: camera, focus, photography, seeing, vision

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