Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Interpretation
Building connections with people is more valuable than exerting authority over them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of fostering genuine relationships in leadership rather than simply commanding or controlling others. It suggests that the essence of effective leadership lies in connecting with others on a personal level, which can lead to a more cooperative and engaged team than merely issuing orders.
In practice
In a team-building workshop, this quote can be used to emphasize the importance of collaboration.
Today's photographers think differently. Many can't see real light anymore. They think only in terms of strobe - sure, it all looks beautiful but it's not really seeing. If you have the eyes to see it, the nuances of light are already there on the subject's face. If your thinking is confined to strobe light sources, your palette becomes very mean - which is the reason I photograph only in available light.
I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.
Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!
I always prefer photographing in available light β or Rembrandt-light I like to call it β so you get the natural modulations of the face. It makes a more alive, real, and flattering portrait.
People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in front of a leaf with a dew drop, or a rain drop, and stay there for ages just waiting for the right moment. Sure, people think I'm crazy, but who cares? I see more than they do!
Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life β as necessary as eating or breathing.
What's important is to have more women creators behind the scenes, being producers and being in charge. That will ultimately help push this boys'-club, locker-room mentality out the door.
He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such.
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.
There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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