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"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
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"Ability without honor is useless."
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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."
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"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."
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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
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"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."
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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."
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"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."
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"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
People
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
Content
"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation."
Love
"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."
Man
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
Nothing
"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things."
Nature
"I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"
Soul
"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."
Nature
"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
Truth
"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
Space
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