I wanted to make myself the most valuable player by making my presence felt at the decisive moments. — Ravichandran Ashwin Copy Share Image
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments… It is always only danger… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to believe that the decisive moments of a life when its direction changes for ever must be marked… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
All true competitors in any field and walk of life take adversity and are strengthened from it. They develop a reputation of… — Luke Jensen Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having… — Nick Zinner Copy Share Image
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void,… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
