Degtyarev Dp Quotes & Sayings

But listen: The weight of the camera reminds me to see. It helps me decide against deciding that my world is overly familiar, already known. I look for cracks and fissures, for the new or newly announced. I look for water to run a different color in the stream, or for the sun to strike the pond in winter with delirious force. If I can't see, then I don't know, and if I don't know, I'm not writing, and while some may question the value of words, or of memoir in particular, I will again make this claim: Words rendered true spook and spur us. They expect of us. They expect for us. Photographs do the same thing: "Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees," said Paul Strand. — Beth Kephart

Do not regret the past. Look to the future. — Soyen Shaku

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of. — Carmen Ejogo

Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me. — Stanley Bing

Kawasumi-kun is holding tighter than I am. — Suu Morishita

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. — George Haven Putnam

The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last. — Salman Rushdie

I don't want to be a celebrity athlete. When you are, there's this pressure on you. It's like you have this halo over your head and have to walk on eggshells. That's not for me. All that glamour builds up a false sense of ego. It's not needed. I'm already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium. — Shani Davis

Words fail us. They are like keys: they open, but they also shut. When we were small and could hardly raise ourselves from the floor, we curled our fingers around the fingers of mother and father, and we looked into their faces as they looked into ours. Where is the word for that? — Anthony Esolen

Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done. — Brian Tracy

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. — Mikhail Bakunin

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice. — Charles Bukowski

I'm single. I'm independent. And I'm dating. I think if you're honest that you're dating, there's nothing wrong with that. — Jerry Hall