Best Lens Thoughts
207 Lens quotes by 190 unique authors
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People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.
— Francine Prose
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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…
— Stephen Covey
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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.
— Dennis Lehane
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Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up…
— Thomas Pynchon
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I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a…
— Joan Bauer
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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…
— Brené Brown
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If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.
— Charles M. Schulz
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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…
— Sean Covey
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There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view…
— Patti Smith
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As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second,…
— Lauren Oliver
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She couldn't "heal" him. No woman could. Events that far in the past just couldn't be undone. But perhaps he didn't need a cure, but…
— Tessa Dare
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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…
— Brené Brown
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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…
— Pat Conroy
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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…
— Tana French
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He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame…
— Kiersten White
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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…
— Eve Arnold
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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…
— Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
— Ayn Rand
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I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual…
— Peter Blair Henry
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! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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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,…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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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.…
— Ralph Waite
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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…
— Terry Pratchett
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