Mydans Quotes

#1. You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

Zadie Smith

#2. In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.

Carl Mydans

#4. a poem is a city burning

Charles Bukowski

#5. It seems that what we've overcome is what ultimately molded us into the people that we are instead of where we've come from.

Jay Crownover

#6. When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.

Letitia Baldrige

#7. One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.

Carl Mydans

#8. There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

George Wald

#10. Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.

Malala Yousafzai

#11. The tsunami that cleared the shoreline like a giant bulldozer has presented developers with an undreamed-of opportunity, and they have moved quickly to seize it. - Seth Mydans, International Herald Tribune, March 10,

Naomi Klein