This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you hisher status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event heshe does not look like an amateur.
I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.
There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing.
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in the events and their observer, witness, interpreter.
The Olympics in '80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting.
In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
Sports is so hard for me to wrap my head around. I never played any sports, I don't watch any sports, I hardly know the rules to any sporting event. Really, I'm borderline mentally damaged when it comes to sports.
If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.
Life as a Divine Creator is effortless. You don't have to do things to make them happen; you call forth people, situations, and events from an inner decision of being.
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.
To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.
Whatever we do would likely happen before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after
If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.
There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.
Vannevar Bush has said that there is no more thrilling experience for a man than to be able to state that he has learned something no other person in the world has ever known before him. … I have been lucky enough to be included in such an event.
Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.