Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
Yousuf KarshRead
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
Interpretation
Character is shaped by challenges and tough times, much like how a photograph is developed in the dark.
This quote by Yousuf Karsh suggests that just as a photograph requires darkness to develop and reveal its true image, a person's character is often forged through difficult and challenging experiences. These hardships contribute to growth and depth, highlighting that adversity plays a crucial role in shaping who we become.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a group of students about resilience.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
I have found that great people do have in common. . .an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true
The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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