"An idea is just that, an idea. The execution of an idea is another thing altogether."-Barbara Bordnick

"If you want to see blinks and flashing and motion, watch TV. This page is still photography."-Tom Hubbard

"The decisive moment? That's when Cartier-Bresson pointed to a frame on his contact sheet and said, 'Print that one.'"-Alan Zenreich

"Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow."-Imogen Cunningham

"If it's easy, it's been done before. Lots of times". - Howard Schatz

"If you're not failing, you're simply not trying hard enough." - Jay Maisel

A critic is someone who comes onto the battlefield after the battle is over and shoots the wounded. - anon

"Light is life, light is everything." Steven Spielberg

"Don't price your services according to what you can personally afford." - Denis Reggie

If you're not shooting, you should be editing, if you're not editing you should be on the phone, if you're not on the phone you should be shooting. - Jay Maisel (quoted by Stephen Wilkes)

Three reasons to take a job: 1. You like working with the people, 2. The money's good, 3. Your really want to do the job. Further, for the job to be worth taking, you must have any two of the three. Occasionally, we get all three. Photo Pro Forum/Photo News Network

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, IBM, 1943

"Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you are probably right." - Henry Ford

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra

"Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody."-Fairfax Cone

"A few creatives, an editor, a composer, a couple of web geeks and two account executives walk into a bar. The editor turns to the creative director and says, I'll bet you fifty bucks you can't put together a viable business plan for all of us to work in the same place. "You're on." says the CD. So he knocks back his drink, whips out a pistol, and shoots the two suits." SparkyGarage

"I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist."-George Carlin, Brain Droppings

"Tis true; there's magic in the web of it." Othello (III.iv69) William Shakespeare

"If you think you've 'arrived' in this business, you've probably just made a seriously wrong turn."-Gary Gladstone/PhotoPro Forum

"Carrying a camera on vacation pretty much guarantees you won't see anything worth shooting."-Bob Krist

"Design pays. It is not a cost, but an investment." Enrique Ponce DeLeon

(Y2K readiness) "We may not have got everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end." Douglas Adams about Apple

"It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say 'My, what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader or listener say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'..."-Morris Hite

"When you buy a 1/4-inch drill bit, what you really need is a 1/4-inch hole. Clients don't need photographers, they need photographs."-Bill Westheimer

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face - the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited; and the wealth and confusion that man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."-Edward Steichen

"The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor."-David Ogilvy

E-Mail from designer "...your pics look great in the Anal Report". Wonder if it was printed on toilet paper?

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."-Henri Cartier Bresson

"Sometimes you're the windshield...sometimes you're the bug!"-Mark Knopfler

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."-Brooks Atkinson, Once Around The Sun

"There is no such thing as 'soft sell' and 'hard sell.' There is only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell'."-Charles Browder

"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas."-Leo Burnett

"I don't go into chat rooms; I have friends." --film director John Waters

"I went into the business for money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it.--Charlie Chaplin

"I like photographers. You don't ask questions."-Ronald Reagan