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"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."
"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."
"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."
"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."
"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."
"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."
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"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
"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."
"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."
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."
"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
"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."
"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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