Thoughts on Photography

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

— Ansel Adams

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”

— Paul Caponigro

“No place is boring if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and a pocket of unexposed film.”

— Robert Adams

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

— Dorothea Lange

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”

— Marc Riboud

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.””

— Imogen Cunningham

Thoughts on Failure

By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail. – Ben Franklin

Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be. - John Wooden

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.  - Jack Canfield

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. - Coco Chanel

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy

The phoenix must burn to emerge. - Janet Fitch

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. - Ken Robinson

Giving up is the only sure way to fail. - Gena Showalter

Thoughts on Perseverance

I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That's what makes you a champion. – Muhammad Ali

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. --- Newt Gingrich

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — either way you're right. – Henry Ford

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. -- Walter Elliot

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. -- William Cobbett

Perseverance and perspective until victory. -- Lincoln Diaz-Balart