photography – quote
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
~Dorothea Lange
Forwarded by Suresh Panje. One of the most beautiful stories I’ve ever heard in my life. —— One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley.
Let’s take a closer look at the question, by starting with the idea of Beauty, and considering the ability of other species to identify it…
Are multinational companies helping or harming India’s development? I don’t know the answer and haven’t come to any conclusion of my own, I’m just putting some pieces here, any more are welcome… 🙂 … or even any differences in opinion!
A philosopher knows exactly what to do in any situation, until it happens to him. I guess this rather stunning quote conveys more or less the same point as this story from the Mahabharata 🙂
I don’t know if I’m just repeating something I’d heard long ago… but this struck me today… If you’re not getting enough out of life, it means you’re not giving enough of yourself.
[Anyone who’s actually done any mountaineering might relate to this more… Also maybe mountaineering is an exaggeration, I might consider changing it to hiking 😉 Actually these are just unstructured initial thoughts, I suppose this post will probably get edited over time – but no idea when… and below please regard him = him/her] Mountaineering…
sanjay,
read this beautiful interview with the inventor of digital camera. lots of insights from the man who invented it…
http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/07kodak.htm
“Innovation best comes from people who know nothing about the topic” – what a great line RK! Or if its too late and one already knows a great deal then that quote could have an extension like “who know nothing about the topic or who can discard all that they know!” 🙂 Thanks for the link, makes good reading.
a great line indeed, which is applicable to anything! 🙂