Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
– Daniel Burnham
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I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
– Mother Teresa
There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
– Washington Irving
Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You Don’t Have To Be Great To Start, But You Have To Start To Be Great.
– Zig Ziglar
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Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
― Arthur C. Clarke
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To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist…
– Clayton Cubitt
I have to agree with this. It’s not to say that you shouldn’t want to be good. But it shouldn’t be the ‘why’ of you doing something. I see plenty of people buy nice camera equipment or take classes out of a desire to become artistic. But the people that stand out… the people that get noticed, they do it because they have to do it. They might occasionally stop and plan — that’s good craft — but they just as likely will be overcome by a glimpse of something and react instinctively.
It isn’t to say you cannot be good without that passion. Just that when you find your passions, those are places where you will really stand out.
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My blog’s older than Twitter and Facebook, and it will outlive them. It has seen Flickr explode and then fade. It’s seen Google Wave and Google Reader come and go, and it’ll still be here as Google Plus fades. When Medium and Tumblr are gone, my blog will be here.
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Art is why you do something. Craft is how you do something.
– Clayton Cubitt
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
– Molière
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
– Margaret Atwood
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“هناك مجنون، ثم هناك مجنون الأمريكية. أنت، يا صديقي، هي مجنون الأمريكية.”
(“There is crazy, and then there is American Crazy. You, my friend, are American Crazy.”)
— Stolen from Higgins.
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
— Pablo Picasso (vía Holly)
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I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out
in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom
of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
– Jack London, Credo
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You’re wasting your time letting someone else decide if your story is worthy of being told.
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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“A man has always wanted to lay me down, but never wanted to pick me up.”
— Eartha Kitt.
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“What do you do when (if) you ever feel like giving up?” – theaudacityofswope
There is no such goddamn thing. There is only getting up and doing it all over again, smarter and harder, until something ups and fucking kills you, because that’s the only thing big enough to stop you.
This is The Great Work, and all you have to do is choose it, not look back and never fucking stop until you’re in your box, under the dirt and flowers are growing between your teeth.
And that is why I’ll never be asked to do motivational speaking. G’night.
– Warren Ellis
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You have to shut off all of those voices and look for these special moments—these moments that you accept you have no control over. So much of my job is to not think—to be open to what’s there, and then use my intuition to see where it takes me.
– Rick Rubin
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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
These are the two basic controls at the photographer’s command: position and timing. All others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them
– David Hurn
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When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I’m human. It’s the same thing when I’m behind a camera. I forget I exist.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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Be tender with adults, they’re just disillusioned children.
— Clayton Cubitt
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