Put aside your ego and start

​Stoic quotes

Your first workout will be bad. 

Your first podcast will be bad. 

Your first speech will be bad. 

Your first video will be bad. 

Your first anything will be bad. 

But you can’t make your 100th without making your first. 

So put aside your ago and start.  

The nature of life is change and resisting change - quote mwme

A Soulmate is an Ordinary Person Who Changes Your Reality [Quote]

Your soulmate is not someone that comes into your life peacefully.  It is who comes to make you question things, who changes your reality, somebody that marks a before and after in your life.  It is not the human being everyone has idealized, but an ordinary person, who manages to revolutionize your world in a second...
~ Anonymous

Via Words of Wisdom on Pintrest

You'll Miss Any Chance You Don't Take

You'll miss any chance you don't take.

A few weeks I approached my boss about selling photo greeting cards in our store.  He was more than happy to buy some of my work because he usually had to go about finding cards he liked to sell in the store.  He chose 14 images and ordered almost 100 cards.  That's an excellent start!  And all because I took the time to ask one question.

This spurred me to take action and try to sell my cards at other stores in the area.  Who knows, this could end up being a nice side business and a great way to promote my work.

Top 10 Favorite Star Wars Quotes

Yoda:  Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Angers leads to hate.  Hate leads to suffering. 
(The Phantom Menace)

Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you.
(The Empire Strikes Back)

Luke: I can't believe it.
Yoda: That is why you fail.
(The Empire Strikes Back)

Yoda: Do or do not...there is no try.
(The Empire Strikes Back)

Obi-Wan: You'll find that many of the truths that we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
(Return of the Jedi)

Obi-Wan: The force can have a strong influence on the weak minded.

(A New Hope)

 

Yoda: For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship
(The Empire Strikes Back)

Qui-Gon Gin: Remember, your focus determines your reality.
(The Phantom Menace)

Anakin: My powers have doubled since the last time we met, count.
Count Dooku: Good. Twice the pride, double the fall.
(Revenge of the Sith)

Anakin: The jedi use their power for good.
Chancellor Palpatine: Good is a point of view, Anakin.
(Revenge of the Sith)



More great quotes:

Obi-Wan: Let go, Luke.
(A New Hope)

Chancellor Palpatine: Let me help you to know the subtleties of the force...

Chancellor Palpatine: If you wish to become a complete and wise leader, you must embrace a larger view of the force.

Luke: You failed your highness.  I am jedi, like my father before me.

Mace Windu: Don't listen to him, Anakin.
Chancellor Palpatine: Don't let him kill me.

Anakin/Darth Vader: If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.
Obi-Wan: Only a Sith deals in absolutes.  I will do what I must.

Count Dooku: I sense great fear in you, Skywalker. You have hate… you have anger… but you don’t use them.
(Attack of the Clones)

A Few Favorite Quotes

Only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon. Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
- The Matrix

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus
- Mark Twain

"Remember, your focus determines your reality."
- Qui-Gon Gin

Inspirational Quotes from Business People

1. “Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

2. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

3. “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” – Steve Jobs

4. “Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd” – P.T. Barnum

5. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey

via: 5 Inspirational Quotes from 5 Great Business People [DIY Themes]

Quote of the Day: 200,000 dollar lightsaber

A lightsaber used in the original Star Wars was bought for $200,000 at a recent auction. The buyer wishes to remain anonymous and a virgin.
- Conan O'Brien

via: TIME's August 15, 2005 issue

Quote about Experience

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
~ Aldous Huxley

Interview excerpts with Sam Jones

About Shooting Film
My feeling is, when film is the best thing to be used in a certain situation and you love film then you should use it. I love the way a negative comes out of my Mamiya camera or my Leica camera. I love the way it looks straight out of the chemicals, the first time you see it. I never feel that way with a digital file. With digital you have to work hard to get that feeling. I think most people who became photographers did so because they had that one moment in the darkroom where something came up and they looked at it and went “wow that’s cool.”

Giving the actors their take
I remember a line from a biography about one of my favorite directors where he said, always roll one for them after you get the one you like. After I get what I need then I always say now you do what you want to do and I’ll just follow along. Some people are like no, no you tell me what to do, but some really open up at that point, and great stuff can happen.

Reasons to do a job
In my head there’s always three reasons to do a job. It’s either money, creative or relationship, or a combination of those.

About Filmmaking
Filmmaking was never about the equipment, except in terms of budget. Filmmaking is storytelling, and if you don’t know how to do that, there is no piece of equipment in the world that will help you.

A Photo Editor - Sam Jones Interview Part 2

Think Small to Get Things Done

According to Zen's Leo Babauta, thinking small is less intimidating and therefore creates less friction in your workflow. The more friction you face, the lower the odds are that you'll plow speedily through a given task. "But more than that, small tasks and projects are victories. You can quickly get to completion and feel great about it. And that compels you to keep going," says the author.

via: Apply the "Art of the Small" to Get Tasks Done - Time management - Lifehacker

Being a Wedding Photographer

Don't miss the details. Follow the story. Above all, have fun.
- Larry Stanley, about wedding photography.

Quote About Travelling from Before Sunset

That's what I like about travelling--you can sit down, maybe talk to someone interesting, see something beautiful, read a good book, and that's enough to qualify a good day. You do that at home and everyone thinks you're a bum.
- Before Sunset

Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh

LENO: Like I tend to come from the, "Is it cold in here?" kind of guy, and you're I think more of a "close that damn window."

Tell Obama, "No, we do not want you owning car companies. No, we do not want you running the banks. No, we don't want you taking over student loans. And, no, we do not want nationalized health care."

. . .But we haven't saved them [General Motors]. We saved the unions.

. . .The government cannot run the private sector.

I'm just saying the market will fix itself for people far better than a bunch of people in Washington with no experience in it tinkering in it and trying to control it.

I'm saying we've got enough mistakes the federal government's run. We don't need to compound it with more programs.

Jay, I'll tell you what really worries me about it. Forget the intricacies of health care. If the government gets control of health care, that's the single best way that they get to control every aspect of our lives: what we eat, what we drive -- because it will all have impact on health care costs, their responsibility via our taxes, and it's just a mechanism whereby government grows and grows and grows and we lose liberty and freedom to it. And that's what the problem with nationalized health care is.

Quote about 9-11 Truth movement

There's still a lot of people that are upset with this information, but that's part of the process
of learning the truth sometimes. We have to go through that process of being disturbed.

- David Milak on the 9/11 Truth information.

Quote: Nothing compares to the simple pleasure

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
~John F. Kennedy

Sidekicks Quotes

You must realize that the greatest weapon you ever possess is self-control.

No anger. You are here to confront bricks. Not that stupid boy.

Gym Teacher: Cellini! I don't remember asking for your opinion.

Dad: What is that smell?
Barry: I don't know.
Dad: It must be a sewage backup around here.

When you learn to control them, you will have fewer dreams, but they will be richer ones.

Karate Event Announcer: Hey check this out. Here's a guy, gonna break bricks wearing an apron.

Chalini: He started it.
Gym teacher: If that's true kid, you have less brains than a woodpecker on an aluminum telephone pole.

Quote: Life can only be found

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Quote: The present moment

The present moment
contains past and future.
The secret of transformation,
is in the way we handle this very moment.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Quote: Mark Twain on imagination

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus
- Mark Twain