The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.
Interpretation
Success in photography depends more on skill and creativity than on expensive equipment.
In this quote, Chase Jarvis emphasizes that the tools and gear you use are not the primary factors that lead to success in photography. Rather, it is one's ability to envision and create captivating images that matters most; relying too heavily on equipment can cloud this fundamental truth.
In practice
In a photography workshop, to inspire students about creativity over equipment.
It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until the recent history, permission was required for us to be able to share work at any sort of scale. We had to get permission from galleries, from ad agencies or photo editors to be able to have our work out there. And now anybody with access to a computer can show their work in 200 countries around the world.
What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.
The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.
A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.
Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.
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