Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Interpretation
Building connections with people is more valuable than exerting authority over them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of fostering genuine relationships in leadership rather than simply commanding or controlling others. It suggests that the essence of effective leadership lies in connecting with others on a personal level, which can lead to a more cooperative and engaged team than merely issuing orders.
In practice
In a team-building workshop, this quote can be used to emphasize the importance of collaboration.
Today's photographers think differently. Many can't see real light anymore. They think only in terms of strobe - sure, it all looks beautiful but it's not really seeing. If you have the eyes to see it, the nuances of light are already there on the subject's face. If your thinking is confined to strobe light sources, your palette becomes very mean - which is the reason I photograph only in available light.
I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.
Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!
I always prefer photographing in available light β or Rembrandt-light I like to call it β so you get the natural modulations of the face. It makes a more alive, real, and flattering portrait.
People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in front of a leaf with a dew drop, or a rain drop, and stay there for ages just waiting for the right moment. Sure, people think I'm crazy, but who cares? I see more than they do!
Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life β as necessary as eating or breathing.
Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, Iβm meaningless.
Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.
When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.
So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.
Everything rises and falls on leadership.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
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