A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
Interpretation
Life's nuances often reveal more than its major events.
Annie Leibovitz suggests that the small, often overlooked moments in life can provide profound insights and understanding about ourselves and our experiences. These 'in-between' moments are crucial in shaping the narrative of our lives, offering depth and richness that the main events may not capture.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth, one could reference this quote to emphasize the importance of appreciating the everyday.
Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.
I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature, but it lacks something that it can only receive from outside and above itself. But when the light shines in it, it becomes in a manner transformed into light and seems to lose its nature in the splendor of a higher nature, the nature of the light that is in it.
I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.
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