"I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people."

Imogen Cunningham, American Photographer

Work, People, Being, Poor

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"I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people."

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"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."

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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

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"You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America."

Science

"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."

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"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."

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"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer."

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"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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Steven Magee, British Author

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Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."

"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

"You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America."

"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."

"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."

"I hate big models."

"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."

"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."

"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer."

"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

"The world system is employment."

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

"Do not be weary to make money."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"