Lenses – Page 17

When you understand the

When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you’re moving in what you’re supposed to do. Aisha Hinds

Men are lenses through

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Other men are lenses

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream delivers us to

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just as theater has

Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace – not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates. Ralph Waite

… if, as women,

… if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens–if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and … Read more

We’re so conditioned to

We’re so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don’t realize that we are running on only half the visual alphabet… It’s what we see every day in the magazines, on billboards and even on television. All those images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a camera. I’m … Read more

I’ve been through some

I’ve been through some very dark times in my life and I’ve been through those very dark times that’s affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that. Rainn Wilson

A visual understanding of

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories… I don’t think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don’t.
Aaron Huey