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• Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .

  Audre Lorde

  Joy, Empowering, Erotic

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• When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

  Ben Horowitz

  Looks, Want, When Things Go Wrong

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• In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

  John Updike

  Memories, Old Memories, Objects

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.23, Random House

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• This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Integrity, Self

  "What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. June 22, 2012.

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• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

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• A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Writing, Stories, Photographer

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• Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

  Debbie Ford

  Views, Perspective, World

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• By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Eyeglasses, Computer, Disappear

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• Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

  Alberto Korda

  Cameras, Dollars, Four

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• The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.

  Dewitt Jones

  Looks, Way, Celebration

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• The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the 'third' eye. Just like the two seeing eyes, the third eye possesses a lens, cornea, and retina. It is light-sensitive and helps regulate body temperature and skin coloration-two basic survival functions related to environmental light.

  Rick Strassman

  Eye, Animal, Two

  Rick Strassman (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.

  David Alan Harvey

  Creative, Way, Spinning

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• Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Bible, Biblical, Culture

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• We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

  Paul Polman

  Inspiring, Economic, Gender

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• All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

  Heinrich Heine

  Eyeglasses, Knowing, Philosopher

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• Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

  Len Wein

  Art, Mistake, Eye

  Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

  Len Deighton

  Funny, Air, Mexico

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• Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

  William Maxwell

  Soul, Cameras, Kind

  William Maxwell (2010). “So Long, See You Tomorrow”, p.77, Random House

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• The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Disappointment, Eye

  Andreas Feininger (1973). “Photographic seeing”, Prentice Hall

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• [It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

  Shawn Achor

  Educational, Reality, Views

  "The happy secret to better work". TEDxBloomington Talk, www.ted.com. May 2011.

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• Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination will always be part of the equation, so get to it.

  Jimmy Chin

  Photography, Determination, Creativity

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• I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond a mere recording. Yes, I've chosen the camera position, how I'm going to print the negative, the angel of the lens, what I'm going to include and exclude in the composition, so on and so forth. But, I'm still photographing a work of art, and I would rather leave it to others to comment on my work, as I just left it to you.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Photography, Art, Angel

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• If you look at yourself and life through the lens of your ego, you'll feel isolated, ganged up on, alone, dfferent, and not part of the crowd. If you look through the lens of Spirit, knowing we're all one, you'll always feel safe, secure, ad loved.

  Sonia Choquette

  Knowing, Ego, Looks

  Sonia Choquette (2009). “The Answer Is Simple...: Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit!: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

  Allen Lacy

  Powerful, Light, Hands

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• Over half the people in the United States wear corrective lenses, and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more clearly - if they would only experiment with changing their ideas about vision.

  Jacob Liberman

  Ideas, People, Vision

  Jacob Liberman (2011). “Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight”, p.24, Harmony

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