Nicholas Nixon quotes

I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.
-- Nicholas Nixon

#Adventure #People #Luck

People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.
-- Nicholas Nixon

#Self #People #Get Better

The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions about it.
-- Nicholas Nixon

#Interesting #World #Opinion

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.