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.
The first thing to look for when searching for a great employee is somebody with a personality that fits with your company culture. Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.
It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.
Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
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