Force Quotes

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The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the… — Israel Nathan Herstein
Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating? — Doc Holliday
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged… — Arthur Koestler
If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to… — Bill Brandt
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from… — John Szarkowski
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a… — Dorothea Lange
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause,… — Edward Weston
In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale. — John Lyall
As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things… — Wynn Bullock
I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force. — Jay Maisel
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in… — Alexey Brodovitch
What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression… — Alexey Brodovitch
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational… — Norman Cousins
Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the… — Jacques Maritain
You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances — Bobby Fischer
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war… — Karl A. Menninger
A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air… — Ted Solotaroff
Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to… — Mahatma Gandhi
The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally… — Charles Darwin

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