"Anything worth doing, is worth doing to excess". -Edwin Land
(inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera)

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions."
- William F. Scolavino

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretsky

"Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement." - -Derek Sanderson

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
-Bill Gates

"Getting fired is natures way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place." - Hal Lancaster

"More powerful than all poetry, more pervasive than all science, more profound than all philosophy are the letters of the alphabet. Twentysix pillers of strength upon which our culture rests." -Unknown

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
-Mother Teresa

"Most of the shadows in this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine." - Unknown

"It is called fast food because it speeds you to the grave." -Chiun (from the movie: Remo Williams - The adventure begins.

"It's not what you own that makes you a great image maker -
It's what you know."
-Scott Smith

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
-Mark Twain

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be enjoyed." -Unknown

"The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long." -Tyrell (from the movie, Blade Runner)

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." -Unknown

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
-- Ansel Adams

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it."
-Danny Kaye

"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest." -Mark Twain

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." -Martin Luther King Jr.

"He who does not find time for health, is obliged to find time for illness."
Chinese proverb

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on." -Carl Sandburg

"When hearts listen, angels sing." -unknown

"If you go to bed believeing something to be impossible you will be awakened by the noise of someone else doing it. "- Mr. Morris

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world." -Albert Einstein

"640 K ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates, 1981

"Mediocrity is not an option." - Scott Smith

"If you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room." -Unknown

"Knowledge is power." -Francis Bacon

"Things are more like they are now, than ever before." -D. Eisenhower

Give a man a fish
and you feed him for a day,
but give him a case of dynamite
and soon the village
will be showered
with mud and seaweed and unidentifiable chunks of fish.
 -unknown

"The fool chatters, while the wise man listens." -Chiun (from the movie, Remo Williams, The Adventure Begins)

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." -William Arthur Ward

"No matter what anybody tells you, words & ideas can change the world." -John Keating (from the movie, Dead Poets Society)

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse." - Winston Churchill

"The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge."
- Adolf Berle

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
- Arnold Toynbee

"A photographer paints with his mind. Not with his lights." - Scott Smith

"I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow."
-Woodrow Wilson, the 28th US President

"To make the journey without falling deeply in love, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven't tried, then you haven't lived". -William Parrish (from the movie, Meet Joe Black)

"If you show me I may forget,
If you tell me I may remember,
If you involve me I will understand". --Chinese Proverb

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.
That is not a weakness.
That is life." -- Captain Jean Luke Picard (Star Trek)

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Henry Ford

"If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking."  -- General George Patton