The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.
Interpretation
Success in photography depends more on skill and creativity than on expensive equipment.
In this quote, Chase Jarvis emphasizes that the tools and gear you use are not the primary factors that lead to success in photography. Rather, it is one's ability to envision and create captivating images that matters most; relying too heavily on equipment can cloud this fundamental truth.
In practice
In a photography workshop, to inspire students about creativity over equipment.
It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until the recent history, permission was required for us to be able to share work at any sort of scale. We had to get permission from galleries, from ad agencies or photo editors to be able to have our work out there. And now anybody with access to a computer can show their work in 200 countries around the world.
I was on a path. I was going to become a principal dancer. I never let my mind rest.
I didn't think I would have an Olympic medal at 21, but I knew I would give my best and play my game. I just viewed it as my first Olympics and that I would take it one match at a time, but to bring a silver home made me very, very happy.
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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