I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus
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I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~ Diane Arbus
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Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
~ Sun Tzu
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way—not his way.
~ Mark Rothko
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~ Joan Didion
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organization’s view of its self and its environment.
~ Edgar H. Schein
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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it, that we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
~ Will Rogers
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Computers are far better at formal computation and formal reasoning, but humans are far better mathematicians.
~ William Thurston
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Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that’s what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
~ Diane Arbus
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