quotes about Learning From Our Mistakes

“A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.”

“It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.1411, Xist Publishing

“If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.”

“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”

“It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.”

“What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.”

“Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.”

“I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.”

“On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.”

Source : "Interview: Benjamin Bratt and Leon Ichaso Talk Piñero". Interview with Ed Gonzalez, www.slantmagazine.com. December 21, 2001.

“Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.”