Everyday Quotes - Page 19

As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wish someone had told me then that the most personally important pictures you’ll ever make are those about you and your life. I’m glad I had the chance to work for some great magazines, but I really miss those little everyday images, the ones that take place in and around your own life, which will never make the news. Don’t sell yourself short: photograph your own life, not just everyone else’s.

Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.

I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

We can study various psychic functions and also the more primitive sensory functions, such as seeing, hearing, and so on, which constitute our image of our everyday world. They have a material side and the psychic side. And that is a gap which you cannot explain.

Everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.

It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.

The drive for working comes from everyday moments - the thrill of experiencing a young cook succeeding in what they thought was an impossible job, as well as guests being happy. I also love the unknown - discovering new things and trying to make sense of them.

Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. But figuratively speaking, I'm really into growth, so when I look in the mirror, I see somebody who's just trying to get better everyday.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventurous person. I don't look for change.

Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.

I'm very proud to be wearing the "C" for the Maple Leafs. It puts a smile on my face everyday

We aren't supposed to strive for perfection everyday. If we were perfect, we'd have no need for Jesus. And it's through our imperfections that we really feel the pull toward our need for a Savior. So the imperfections serve a wonderful purpose if we'll let them.

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.