Serious work...

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. -Pablo Picasso

Hear a different drummer...

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau

It's their photo, not yours...

Always make people feel like it's their photo, not yours. There’s nothing worse than a pushy photographer. - Bryan Adams, Portrait Photographer (and rock legend)

All good things...

All good things are wild and free. - Henry David Thoreau

What you're shooting...

People can smell whether you love what you're shooting or not, love what you're doing or not. So you might as well effing love it for real. So quit with your shifty eyes, looking at what everybody else is doing. And do your own shiznit. Yes this means you. - Chase Jarvis

Live in the present...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. - Henry David Thoreau

Be yourself...

Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. - Henry David Thoreau

I would rather sit on a...

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Henry David Thoreau

Just sit there...

I love being in nature. I could just sit on a cliffside and listen to the wind. Just sit there. There's no past, there's no future, you're just here. There's no thought, no stress. - Scott Mansfield, Photographer

Everyone has greatness in them...

Everyone has greatness in them. It's just that so many of us are willing to second-guess ourselves and say, 'No, that couldn't possibly be the truth.' And children have a wonderful gift. They have to figure out what that gift is, dig it out and give it to the world — and it could be anything. - Henry Winkler

Look at good work...

Look at good work being done by other people, but never copy. - John Rankin Waddell

Artists are...

Artists are explorers. Artists can show us people and places that we overlook in our lives. - David Binder

Warmth...

May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart. - Eskimo proverb

Overdressed...

You can never be overdressed or overeducated. -Oscar Wilde

First they ignore...

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mohandas Gandhi

That's what matters to me...

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful ... that's what matters to me." – Steve Jobs, Wall Street Journal 1993

Not the camera...

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. - Eve Arnold

A good traveler...

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu

Better...

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. - C.S. Lewis

Without wings...

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

No matter how they say it to you...

"Don't get typecast in your own life," he says. "You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, 'Oh my god, you'll never make it; oh my god, you're not bright; you could never do this' - that's one person. I can't tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor."
- Henry Winkler, 'The Fonz'