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200 Written Quotes

eyes like a shutter
mind like a lens.
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There is only
you and your
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The limitations
in your
photography are
in yourself,
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I see everything through a spiritual lens. Votes: 2

Katy Perry

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From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour. Votes: 2

Julia Margaret Cameron

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I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens. Votes: 2

Kathy Ireland

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Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah. Votes: 2

Matisyahu

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People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are. Votes: 2

Nikki Sixx

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If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. Votes: 2

Eve Arnold

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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. Votes: 2

Yousuf Karsh

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I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens. Votes: 2

Eve Arnold

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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition. Votes: 2

Madeleine M. Kunin

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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. Votes: 2

Rita Dove

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I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move. Votes: 2

Matthew Gray Gubler

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In general, I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to. Votes: 2

Emma Stone

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Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else. Votes: 2

Sean Covey

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I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see all those things are really important on every shot. Votes: 2

Roger Deakins

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Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through. Votes: 2

Martin Scorsese

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Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable. Votes: 2

Mick Ebeling

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I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us. Votes: 2

David Eagleman

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There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that. Votes: 2

Charles Krauthammer

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I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. Votes: 2

Taylor Swift

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Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems. Votes: 2

Brene Brown

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I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get. Votes: 2

Andre Agassi

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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face. Votes: 2

Kevin Spacey

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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest. Votes: 2

Barbara Corcoran

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Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission. Votes: 2

Jeb Bush

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Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach. Votes: 2

Josh Fox

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The way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the lens of what's happening with the immigration debate. While that's an important debate that has security and moral implications, in my view, there's also a huge history of Latinos in the United States that's never been told. Votes: 2

Ken Salazar

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The lens is a tyranny. Votes: 0

David Hockney

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Just put on the lens and go. Votes: 0

Miroslav Tichy

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The best zoom lens is your legs. Votes: 0

Ernst Haas

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The keyhole is my lens as a writer. Votes: 0

Nelson Rodrigues

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Words are a lens to focus one's mind. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. Votes: 0

John Updike

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People see everything through the lens of their obsessions. Votes: 0

Francine Prose

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Time is the lens through which dreams are captured. Votes: 0

Francis Ford Coppola

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The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty. Votes: 0

Charles R. Swindoll

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We always point the lens both outward and inward. Votes: 0

Paul Caponigro

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The most important lens you have is your legs Votes: 0

Ernst Haas

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Without Godâs Word as a lens, the world warps Votes: 0

Ann Voskamp

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We put a gender lens on our whole value chain. Votes: 0

Paul Polman

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Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing. Votes: 0

Elliott Erwitt

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We do not see the lens through which we look. Votes: 0

Ruth Benedict

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Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'. Votes: 0

Ernst Haas

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If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on. Votes: 0

Charles M. Schulz

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Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination. Votes: 0

Cathy O'Neil

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The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things. Votes: 0

Dewitt Jones

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A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood. Votes: 0

Ann Hood

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All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel. Votes: 0

C. J. Mahaney

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I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else. Votes: 0

Sebastiao Salgado

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I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar. Votes: 0

Gretchen Rubin

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From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, Votes: 0

Julia Margaret Cameron

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My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience. Votes: 0

Charles Bartlett Johnson

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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God. Votes: 0

Dan Colen

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View life through a wide angle lens attitude and see your horizons broaden. Votes: 0

Stephen Richards

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Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world. Votes: 0

Debbie Ford

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Titles or organizational structures, that's not the lens through which we see our peers, Votes: 0

Jonathan Ive

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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens. Votes: 0

Lamar Giles

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Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens. Votes: 0

Michelle Franklin

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The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world ... Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries. Votes: 0

Bryant H. McGill

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Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture. Votes: 0

Brian D. McLaren

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Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens. Votes: 0

Michael Pollan

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I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you. Votes: 0

Debra Winger

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In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves. Votes: 0

Ellen Langer

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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens. Votes: 0

Ellen Hopkins

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Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings. Votes: 0

Dallin H. Oaks

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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens. Votes: 0

Carine Roitfeld

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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. Votes: 0

David Bailey

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I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection. Votes: 0

Nobuyoshi Araki

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The lies they've convinced their eyes that they're seeing, will not mar the truth in my lens. Votes: 0

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

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I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect. Votes: 0

Edward Weston

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Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera. Votes: 0

William Maxwell

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I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world. Votes: 0

Russ Roberts

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When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough. Votes: 0

Jay Nichols

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Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise! Votes: 0

Salvador Dali

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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?' Votes: 0

Ben Horowitz

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You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have. Votes: 0

Marianne Williamson

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The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth. Votes: 0

Craig Groeschel

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Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important. Votes: 0

Mariska Hargitay

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When we begin to view our experiences through the lens of gratitude, our heart, mind and spirit naturally expand. Votes: 0

David Brown Jr.

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We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward. Votes: 0

John Paul Caponigro

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A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. Votes: 0

Habib Umar bin Hafiz

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You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That's the kind of lens I'm looking for. Votes: 0

Sally Mann

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The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world. Votes: 0

Janine Benyus

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My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm. Votes: 0

Annie Leibovitz

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I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens. Votes: 0

Julian Ovenden

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Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world. Votes: 0

Judith Kelman

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When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture. Votes: 0

Alberto Korda

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Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing. Votes: 0

Jed Diamond

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Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective. Votes: 0

James E. Faust

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Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze. Votes: 0

George Iles

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If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text. Votes: 0

Alison Jackson

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It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens. Votes: 0

Sarah Miller

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Quote: "To put it another way, by viewing it through an unreal lens, the world looks more real." - Haruki Murakami Votes: 0

Jeff Vandermeer

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I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people. Votes: 0

Penny Marshall

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They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that. Votes: 0

Andy Garcia

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To deepen my connection with what is real, lasting + true; I close my eyes + see through the lens of my heart. Votes: 0

LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

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Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is. Votes: 0

Jeb Bush

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I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens. Votes: 0

Feist

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I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed Votes: 0

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly. Votes: 0

Martha Beck

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The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong. Votes: 0

Marvin Olasky

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Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen. Votes: 0

Dennis Lehane

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Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies. Votes: 0

Robert Zemeckis

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The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect. Votes: 0

Arthur Miller

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Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible. Votes: 0

Parker J. Palmer

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There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life. Votes: 0

Richard Jeni

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Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job. Votes: 0

Wayne Dyer

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We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens. Votes: 0

Nichole Nordeman

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Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law. Votes: 0

Thane Rosenbaum

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Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... . Votes: 0

Philippe Halsman

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I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter Votes: 0

William Albert Allard

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Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story. Votes: 0

Charles Hazlewood

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Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge. Votes: 0

Bryant McGill

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I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter. Votes: 0

William Albert Allard

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I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting. Votes: 0

Ewan McGregor

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Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets. Votes: 0

Amanda Schull

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People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera. Votes: 0

Erica O'Rourke

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Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on. Votes: 0

Doc Childre

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The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it. Votes: 0

Daniel J. Boorstin

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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy. Votes: 0

Walter Kirn

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My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing. Votes: 0

Lisa Kristine

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When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes. Votes: 0

Elizabeth George

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For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death. Votes: 0

Jean Baudrillard

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The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age. Votes: 0

Jennifer Egan

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The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion. Votes: 0

Arthur C. Clarke

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My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing. Votes: 0

David Eagleman

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A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens. Votes: 0

Orson Welles

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A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing. Votes: 0

Allen Lacy

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Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it. Votes: 0

Joe McNally

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Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control. Votes: 0

Alison Jackson

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I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it. Votes: 0

Alexa Chung

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It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions. Votes: 0

Roelof Botha

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If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. Votes: 0

Eve Arnold

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I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical "proof." It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act. Votes: 0

Sarah Miles

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Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle. Votes: 0

Hanneli Mustaparta

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With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell. Votes: 0

Ingeborg Bachmann

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When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater. Votes: 0

Michael Snow

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I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery. Votes: 0

John Gruber

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I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective. Votes: 0

Chath Piersath

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Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens. Votes: 0

Gore Verbinski

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Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive. Votes: 0

David Hewson

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Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens. Votes: 0

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive. Votes: 0

Tori Amos

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People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through. Votes: 0

Dallas Campbell

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You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye. Votes: 0

John Ruskin

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Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see. Votes: 0

Jillian Hervey

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The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens. Votes: 0

Gu Cheng

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Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember. Votes: 0

Graydon Carter

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It's this perspective of us as humans to look at our world through the lens of "normal' [that] is one of the forces that stops us developing real solutions. Votes: 0

Justin Hall

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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food. Votes: 0

Kate Christensen

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I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope. Votes: 0

Gordon Gee

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We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour. Votes: 0

Julia Margaret Cameron

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I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself. Votes: 0

Bruce Weber

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All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one. Votes: 0

Karen Traviss

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I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too. Votes: 0

John Hurt

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What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility. Votes: 0

Aleksandar Hemon

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There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy. Votes: 0

Richard Phillips

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Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited. Votes: 0

Sara Sheridan

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["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know. Votes: 0

Janusz Kaminski

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The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue. Votes: 0

Berenice Abbott

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There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing about them is dull or uninteresting or unplugged. Votes: 0

Luci Swindoll

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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy

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Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens. Votes: 0

Anderson Cooper

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Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep. Votes: 0

Terry Tempest Williams

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I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being. Votes: 0

Philippe Halsman

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Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away. Votes: 0

Sarah Dessen

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There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short. Votes: 0

Ian K. Smith

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There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man -- but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point. Votes: 0

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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When I can see things through the lens of the director, it's like being able to see the whole puzzle - it's not just about my role, but the whole script. Votes: 0

Justin Baldoni

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Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes. Votes: 0

Liu Dan

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Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events. Votes: 0

Llewellyn Rockwell

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If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer. Votes: 0

Eve Arnold

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Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens. Votes: 0

Ronald Steel

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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates. Votes: 0

Ralph Waite

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Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68) Votes: 0

BrenÃ© Brown

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Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68) Votes: 0

Bren茅 Brown

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The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity. Votes: 0

Howard Schultz

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If you clear that negative feeling and forgive yourself, then you can see the world from a different lens. You stop attracting that same type of experience. You can set yourself free. Votes: 0

Gabrielle Bernstein

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No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see. Votes: 0

Paul Strand

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This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness. Votes: 0

Maria Popova

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Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know... Votes: 0

Alton Tobey

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I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi. Votes: 0

Graciela Iturbide

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Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart. Votes: 0

Bryant H. McGill

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All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike. Votes: 0

Sean Covey

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I see the world from the perspective of a 5'8" person, not someone who is 6'4". so naturally, I'm going to choose certain lens heights over and again... Sometimes nature makes choices for you. Votes: 0

Michael Mann

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Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church. Votes: 0

M. Russell Ballard

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A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art. Votes: 0

Diane Ackerman

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You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens. Votes: 0

Nathan Shedroff

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I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens. Votes: 0

Osman Baydemir

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Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe. Votes: 0

Alex Steffen

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Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down, it was based on experts, and it was big-picture. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Novogratz

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There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is. Votes: 0

Richard Widmark

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My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame. Votes: 0

Martine Franck

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Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There is nothing in the world that has the cutting edge of a new thought.

John O'Donohue

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Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

Bryan Stevenson

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I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.

Rainn Wilson

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Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

Ted Alexandro

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I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is what I'd been looking for to resolve some of these inner conflicts and pains.

Mark Coleman

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It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.

Jaume Collet-Serra

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I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

Chris Cleave

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Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.

Jaume Collet-Serra

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You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

Henry Rollins

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My job, as I see it, is to give you a window into another world and another story, and then to be as graceful as I can so that you don't feel my work or the editor's work or the lens or the light or anything.

Victor Levin

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Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.

Jon Foreman

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This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

Tana French

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There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.

L. Ron Hubbard

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To the oft-asked question, What camera or lens do you use? I can only reply I couldn't tell to save my soul - it is enough for me to know that I have something that will make pictures and that it is in working order.

Edward S. Curtis

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Sometimes I feel ashamed at my lack of interest in all the new techniques of modern filmmaking, but I prefer to work with as little equipment as possible. If I have a good lens and a steady camera, that's all I need.

Sven Nykvist

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The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

Jean Genet

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Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

C. A. Bartol

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The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.

Gerald Jampolsky

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If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my best images appear. That excitement and shock of discovery makes my life at these moments a gift.

Joyce Tenneson

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One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.

Mary Harron

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Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

Franz Kafka

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We always think from where we come from. We always think from the sources that shape our understanding. I think about the world through the lens of my Islamic tradition. I accept this but I must also have intellectual humility.

Tariq Ramadan

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[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

Shawn Achor

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If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.

Annie Proulx

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What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.

Chris Abani

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When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.

BrenÃ© Brown

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When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine.

Haskell Wexler

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The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens.

Justine Kurland

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When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you're moving in what you're supposed to do.

Aisha Hinds

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I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful, it is unrealistic. This approach leaves Syria as a broken country and a breeding ground for extremists for decades.

Paul Wolfowitz

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The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment.

Andreas Feininger

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You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.

Christopher Doyle

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I'm a natural behind the camera. My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here. When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.

David Lee Roth

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When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?

Pablo Picasso

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There's just something about getting up, putting it out there, and getting this exchange of energy. Whether your audience is a camera lens, or live theater, or whatever it is, just putting that out there and getting it back is just an honor.

Lauren Bowles

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But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of your life, always forcing his way into the center of the picture. You deserve to have your life be about you; you are worth it.

Lundy Bancroft

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Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.

Stephen Colbert

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Sometimes it's like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It's like you see them through a special lens"but maybe if it's how you see them,that's how they really are.It's like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.

Jenny Han

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If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because the viewer wants to create a type of narrative around the political theme when they look at work depicting black and brown models.

Kehinde Wiley

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If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

Sivananda

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The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.

Christian Wiman

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The #â zodiac sign on the #â Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act.

Dane Rudhyar

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[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures.

Sheena Iyengar

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The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.

Andre Bazin

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Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.

Henry Ward Beecher

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I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.

Sebastiao Salgado

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When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.

Bill Brandt

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This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.

David Foster Wallace

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I find myself trying to translate a lot of the things whirring passed my subjective lens into language I can make sense of, then that tribal tongue becomes rap-language and for whatever reason some people on the internet really like that. To y'all I'm eternally indebted.

Milo

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Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer and struggle. Through the lens of his own miraculous experiences, Mr. Hanagarne illuminates the path to joy and the infinite possibilities of transcendence.

Melanie Rae Thon

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Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

Gary Hamel

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We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

Robert Greene

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Critical lens (25 quotes)

I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you. Votes: 1 Wendy Davis

Looking through a lens (32 quotes)

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age. Votes: 1 Jennifer Egan

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