Joyce Tenneson shares her favorite quotes.
This is my favorite from her selection.
“When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.” – Vincent Van Gogh
Which is your favorite of her selected quotes?
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Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on opportunity.
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” – John Dewey
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” Oprah Winfrey
“The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.” Anthony Robbins
“If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you’ve got.” – Richard Branson
“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.” – Publilius Syrus
“The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people’s opinions.” – Paulo Coelho
“Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.” Arabian Proverb
“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.” – H Jackson Brown Jr
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.” ― Boris Pasternak
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” – Kyle Chandler
“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“Where one door shuts another opens.” – Miguel de Cervantes
“When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.” – Helen Keller
“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.” – Napoleon Hill
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.” – Robert Kennedy
“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.” – Eric Hoffer
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” – Joseph Campbell
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” – Harry S. Truman
“To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.” Samuel Johnson
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francois Bacon
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” – Bruce Lee
“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.” – Whitney M. Young, Jr
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.” – Albert Einstein
“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.” – Oprah Winfrey
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These soulful discussions of photography will remind you of why you do it and how to go further and deeper with your practice.
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Get an inside view of the mind of a photographer who has influenced a generation of photographers.
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Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, journeying through her childhood and family history and into the worlds of physics and chance, looking for hints of where her own creativity comes from. It’s a wild ride with a surprise ending.
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Here’s a collection of quotes by photographer Jay Maisel.
“Always carry a camera; it’s tough to shoot a picture without one.” – Jay Maisel
“Never say you’re going back – SHOOT IT NOW!” – Jay Maisel
“If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.” – Jay Maisel
“Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.” – Jay Maisel
“Allow yourself to lose your way.” – Jay Maisel
“It’s always around. You just don’t see it.” – Jay Maisel
“If you can capture the element of surprise, you’re way ahead of the game.” – Jay Maisel
“You have to have a lot of ‘overage’ so that your failures aren’t the only thing you come home with. You’ve got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.” – Jay Maisel
“There are rules about perception, but not about photography.” – Jay Maisel
“When finding the right angle for a shot…’Move your ass.’” – Jay Maisel
“You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get involved in it in a very physical way. You may find that the picture you want to do can only be made from a certain place, and you’re not there, so you have to physically go there. And that participation may spur you on to work harder on the thing, . . . because in the physical change of position you start seeing a whole different relationship.” – Jay Maisel
“A photographer’s art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.” – Jay Maisel
“Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.” – Jay Maisel
“You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.” – Jay Maisel
“If you’re not shooting in the right direction, it doesn’t matter how well you’re shooting.” – Jay Maisel
“If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.” – Jay Maisel
“As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.” – Jay Maisel
“Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.” – Jay Maisel
“Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.” – Jay Maisel
“I don’t see light as something that falls but as a positive force.” – Jay Maisel
“I’m a New Yorker. I don’t believe in air unless I can see it.” – Jay Maisel
“Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.” – Jay Maisel
“If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.” – Jay Maisel
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Using Smart Collections in Lightroom speeds up the process of gathering and revisiting these images. I use Smart Collections―1 Star, 2 Stars, 3 Stars, 4 Stars, 5 Stars, and 3+ Stars. These Smart Collections are critical for focusing and accelerating my visual thought process, helping me to make the most of a location in a short amount of time. I can see what’s working and what’s not, correct mistakes, figure out what it’s going to take to up my game, identify missing shots, and seek out the ones that will bring a set of images together. Smart Collections serve as a chronology of all the ranked images I’ve made. They create a unique kind of journal. Most importantly, they start the process of assembling bodies of work.
I use Collections for assembling like images to develop projects, typically grouping selected images by location or theme. Unlike Smart Collections, I find Collections’ support for a manual sort order essential. Manual sort orders enable me to create image pairs and sequences, continuities that bind groups of images together into bodies of work. (For more on Continuity, Bodies of Work, and Developing Personal Projects, download my free PDFs at Creativity / Storytelling resources here.
Unlike when I used film, where I had to make physical contact sheets to select images, I rarely print my virtual contact sheets. It’s curious to call them by the traditional name “contact sheets,” because they’re not made by contacting film to paper. But, they’re no less essential to my creative process; if anything, they’re more important. Virtual Contact Sheets allow me to edit images at higher levels of thinking. I even use them to select and sequence images for slideshows, exhibits, and books.
I save virtual contact sheets, and sometimes I even save different states of a single contact sheet. I take screenshots of Lightroom’s display of my curated Collections. So many people requested to see them that I started sharing them on my blog. Having to make remarks about my virtual contact sheets helped me obtain an even better understanding of my creative process and my results.
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There’s technique and there’s history, but what’s it all mean? These books will give you many insights. They’re helpful for photographers at any level – and it’s likely you’ll find yourself revisiting them for many years to come.
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Ira Glass of “This American Life” talks about the building blocks of a great story.
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Anyone who understand the history of the medium will understand it better and appreciate it more. This is extremely helpful for practicing photographers. (And who isn’t one these days?)
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