Lenses Quotes - Page 16

• I find myself trying to translate a lot of the things whirring passed my subjective lens into language I can make sense of, then that tribal tongue becomes rap-language and for whatever reason some people on the internet really like that. To y'all I'm eternally indebted.

  Milo

  Rap, People, Trying

  Source: blog.ourvinyl.tv

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• Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.

  Mark Coleman

  Judging, Ordinary, Different

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is what I'd been looking for to resolve some of these inner conflicts and pains.

  Mark Coleman

  Pain, Games, Attention

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Humility, Posture, Great Things

  Parker J. Palmer (2017). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.157, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you clear that negative feeling and forgive yourself, then you can see the world from a different lens. You stop attracting that same type of experience. You can set yourself free.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Feelings, Forgiving, Negative

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• I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the cameras." And the cameraman would show me how to thread the film, how to repair it, the lenses. That's when you become, like, goony goo-goo about it. You breathe and eat camera, and all of a sudden, you don't want anything else in the world. You finally know, "This is my calling." When you're passionate about something, it doesn't become work. It's art and it's fun. It's arduous, it's sweaty.

  Pam Grier

  Art, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

  Chris Cleave

  War, Distance, Thinking

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test' - Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview with Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.

  Chath Piersath

  Struggle, Writing, Perspective

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best people I could and then leave them alone. I don't know much about cameras or lighting, so I'd make sure that I had a really good cameraman who understood lenses and lighting, and I say to him, "This is the scene we have to shoot and this is what I think it should be, you go do it." Same with actors. But really, very good directors who know everything do basically the same thing. They hire you and then they leave you alone.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Moving, Journey, Rejection

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.

  Bill Ayers

  Real, Moments, J Edgar Hoover

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• To be honest, there are many things said about Russia because they have been demonized for years at the behest of the USA. It is part of the greatness of a European country to develop one's own opinion and to not view everything through the US lens. We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, Greatness, Views

  Source: www.eunews.it

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• Barack Obama didn't say "I only want to be the President of Black people," he said "I want to be the President of the United States and have something to say about the United States and my perspective and my lens is going to affect my judgment on everything" and that's the way a Christian should be. I'm going to invade culture and my lens and perspective is going to influence culture just as much as anyone else's.

  LeCrae

  Christian, Perspective, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

  David Bailey

  Children, Use, Kind

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• Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

  Graydon Carter

  Memories, Thinking, Way

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• But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came

  Sidney Poitier

  Views, Land, Other Worlds

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• There's nothing easy or simple or even entertaining (in our contemporary American sense of that word) in disciplining our minds to "see" reality through biblical lenses; it takes effort and time. But Christians who don't take that effort and time will inevitably succumb to some of the anti-biblical and anti-Christian messages that bombard us every day through advertising, entertainment, etc.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Biblical, Simple

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that our past lenses of contextualizing events don't work - they cease to matter.

  Joshua Mohr

  Writing, Past, Our World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People underestimate the power of the Internet. For some consumers, it is the source of all information. Younger adults are on their phones more than they watch television. They don't read newspapers. It is their real world. It is not a set of virtual lenses.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Real, Phones, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I have some advantages of viewing from the two lenses, the two perspectives. I think that a lot of visual artists who come back here from the United States and are Cambodian also write from their American references - looking inside the old culture, and looking at themselves as an American looking into the country where they were born.

  Chath Piersath

  Country, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Discrimination

  Source: www.salon.com

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• This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.

  Errol Morris

  Years, Cameras, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Attitude, Believe

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• As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.

  Mirabel Osler

  Beauty, Eye, Garden

  Mirabel Osler (2012). “A Gentle Plea for Chaos”, p.36, A&C Black

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• This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to create it. You have to see it. You have to seize it and you have to move in to get it, so those lenses are just an escape of some sort or a shield.

  Carol Friedman

  Moving, Shields, Ridiculous

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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