"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."Stephen King

"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity." Thomas Wolfe

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe." Abraham Lincoln

"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice." William Glasser

"Failure is delay, not defeat.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."  Denis Waitley

"However little television you watch, watch less."David McCullough

"Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. "Miguel de Unamuno

"Wine is a food, a medicine and a poison - it's just a question of dose."Paracelsus

"Don't practise until you get it right; practise until you never get it wrong."Garry P.

"Early failure is not a verdict, but a navigation point for better work." Daniel Coyle

"Money is a concept." N. Yates

"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches." Rainer Maria Rilke

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers"
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I play it cool and dig all jive,
That's the reason I stay alive.
My motto as I live and learn,
Is dig and be dug in return.
Langston Hughes

"Inspiration does exists, but it must find you working."Pablo Picasso

"The picture is not the thing itself, it's a new fact."Garry Winogrand, photographer. 

"Things become invisible when habit makes you stop letting yourself be amazed." Loupix on flickr

"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." Henry Miller

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" Albert Einstein

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring." Carl Sandburg

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." Anatole France

"Some good rules for written English.

• Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
• Never use a long word where a short one will do.
• If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
• Never use the passive where you can use the active.
• Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
• Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous."

"Your best teacher is your last mistake." Ralph Nader

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." John W. Gardner

"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true." William Ralph Inge

"'I have a passion for ____________ and my goal is to _____________.'
If you can possibly fill in that sentence with something that really makes sense for you, then it is, as the saying goes, half the battle." Michael Johnson, photographer and writer.

"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed." Vincent Van Gogh

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."Epictetus

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." Kahlil Gibran

"Happy is attractive." Susan F.

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." Emile Zola

"Ne déclenchez pas trop tôt ni trop tard, déclenchez au moment juste, c'est tout l'art de la photographie avec le Leica." Marcel Natkin - Le Leica, sa Technique, ses Usages, 1933

"Well, I swapped my exercise bike for a bottle of Bacardi..."Louise C.

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."Plato

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends." Orson Welles

"True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life." Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory." Diane Arbus, photographer

"If you have the world's best images in a popular market niche, you'll never starve."Mark Loundy

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'" Muhammad Ali

"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king." Abraham Maslow

"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone." Albert Camus

"Sound immediately rearranges the molecular structure of the listener. And that's something that I'm really really passionate about." Carlos Santana

"The true power is endurance, the true wisdom is generosity. The true compassion is tolerance, and the true wealth is contentment".Anon

"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas." Stanley Kubrick

"...constant practice is necessary to master a craft - exactitude can be attained only through relentless repetition."Ansel Adams, photographer and concert pianist

"be well, do good work, and keep in touch.." Garrison Keillor

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to the next without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today." Rotarian

"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition."
"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal." Elbert Hubbard

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life." Victor Hugo

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." American sports coach Vince Lombardi

"THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment."  Thomas J. Watson - founder of IBM

"If a woman is poorly dressed, one notices her dress, if she is impeccably dressed, one notices the woman." Coco Chanel

"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system." William James

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible upon external things."" Epictetus

"Our goals can only be reached through the vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." Pablo Picasso

"Everything you want in life lies just outside your comfort zone" "Anon"

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door." Albert Camus"

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." Stephen R. Covey

"Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits."Robert Louis Stevenson

"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."Dr Johnson

"I don't want to come to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."Poet and author Diane Ackerman

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."G.K. Chesterton

"I went and gave blood; killed some time"Anna B.

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle

"For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time." Isabel Allende

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." Douglas Adams

"One dreams of the goddess Fame, and winds up with the bitch Publicity."Peter de Vries

"A story is what holds us together, and what is left when we leave."philosopher Marshall Dodge

"Those who rush things too much, without reflection, can be surpassed by those who take their time."Malagasy proverb

"Photography is about looking at a world and having the ability to describe and record that world. I most admire those photographers who make pictures because they did not have any other options."  Laurel Nakadate 

"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film." Robert Adams

"Limited space inspires limitless imagination." Anon

"Some things are worth much more than money." Kiki G.

"Une bonne image naît d'un état de grace. La grace se manifeste lorsqu'on est délivré des conventions, libre comme un enfant dans sa première découverte de la réalité. Le jeu est alors d'organiser le rectangle." Sergio Larrain

"Peter, if you keep your heart and your eyes open there is a gift waiting for you on the corner of every street." Photographer Edouard Boubat to photographer Peter Turnley

"All progress depends upon the unreasonable man." (or woman...)George Bernard Shaw

"Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity."Anon.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. Douglas Adams

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."The Designer Witch

"... a daredevil, always on the lookout for currents to swim against."Nadar, 19th century photographer, about himself

...don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway. no rules street photography

...relax, sink into the truth...Barefoot Doctor in The Observer newspaper.

"People blame circumstances for where they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people that succeed in this life, are the people that go out and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."George Bernard Shaw

"Given commitment, clear goals and action, it's just a matter of time. Determine what you want and act."Anon

"A ragamuffin husband and a rantipoling wife,
We'll fiddle it and scrape it through the ups and downs of life."Anon

Sadly, in human affairs, getting out of trouble takes precedence over growth.Noel

"The more I practice, the luckier I get."Every successful person in every field, ever.

"In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it."Emile Zola

"You have to endure the schlockwave flush loading screen..."An anonymous commentator on websites

"Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old.”Ralph Waldo Emerson

'If you carry on doing the same old thing, the same old thing will keep happening to you. To change your future, renew your mind and do something new.'from Ali A.

"To err is human, to forgive divine; however neither is Marine Corps policy."an old US Marine Corps saying.

It takes only one arse to make a horrible smell.Tony H.