George N. Atiyeh quotes

You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only thing that separates us from other creatures is that we aren't limited by our basic needs, like food and water; we have this sense of the whole.
-- George N. Atiyeh

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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act...

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.