A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
Interpretation
Life's nuances often reveal more than its major events.
Annie Leibovitz suggests that the small, often overlooked moments in life can provide profound insights and understanding about ourselves and our experiences. These 'in-between' moments are crucial in shaping the narrative of our lives, offering depth and richness that the main events may not capture.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth, one could reference this quote to emphasize the importance of appreciating the everyday.
Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.
I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy talesβ concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.
The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
The longest journey is the journey inward.
I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
Why go from the individual to the entire race, from the singular to the group, from the guilty to the innocent? We know why. That is how racism works. That is racism in action.
Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.
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