Personal Quotes

5263 Personal quotes by 3479 unique authors

It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures… — Alexey Brodovitch
It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed… — Alexey Brodovitch
It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph. — Alexey Brodovitch
I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even… — Paulo Freire
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively… — Nel Noddings
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a… — Viktor E. Frankl
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. — Joseph Collins
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal… — Unknown Author
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and… — Unknown Author
Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not. — Joseph Batten
Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others… — Mother Teresa
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the… — Gerald Heaney
I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing. Now, that's… — John F. Kerry
I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that would immediately allow you to master the ability to be guided by the… — Richard G. Scott
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if… — Minnie Bruce Pratt
Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information — George W. Bush
One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there… — James Madison
Because the union of a man and woman deserves an honored place in our society, I support the protection of marriage against activist judges. And… — George W. Bush
The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good. — Paul Krugman
What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly… — Eugen Richter
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from one… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy
This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper. — Hilary Benn
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your personal character. — Grenville Kleiser

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