Top 100 Quotes About Lens
#1. There were two spacemen right behind us, holding some kind of weapons on us that I didn't recognize. They were bulky and ended in some kind of slanted lens thing. I kinda wanted to get shot with one, just to see what it did.
David Wong
#2. Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
Ellen Hopkins
#3. Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps.
Ann Voskamp
#4. I myself recently dreamed that a UFO came speeding towards me which turned out to be the lens of a magic lantern whose projected image was myself; this suggested to me that I was the figure, himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi.
C. G. Jung
#5. I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.
William Albert Allard
#7. Marveling yet again at the way the very same things that cause him to grind his teeth-with a different lens, a tighter focus, better lighting-look like love.
Maud Casey
#8. You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
David Bailey
#9. Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination will always be part of the equation, so get to it.
Jimmy Chin
#10. For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.
Jean Baudrillard
#11. That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
Ville Valo
#12. The more money you get, the bigger target you become. That's true. It's sad but it's true that you have to be aware of every person that comes to you with the next greatest deal. You just have to look at every single person with a fine lens. That's the way my life is going to be from here on out.
Reggie Bush
#13. A turtle swims in the background while this shark's face is distorted by the diver's camera lens.
James Mayrose
#14. You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.
John Ruskin
#15. In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
Ellen Langer
#16. It's easy to step back and see something through the lens of personal bias.
Karen Kingsbury
#17. Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable.
Mick Ebeling
#18. Philosophy is a lens for interpretation and compass for action.
Andrew C. Katen
#19. ! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.
Sebastiao Salgado
#20. Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.
Gary Hamel
#21. Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.
Bryant McGill
#22. When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.
Richard DeVos
#23. People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.
Erica O'Rourke
#24. It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove
of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This
event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released
upon the masses in 2012.
Phil Collen
#25. The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.
Klaus Schwab
#26. I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were.
Kenneth Oppel
#27. The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your prejudices.
Paul La Farge
#28. A founder's perspective is unique.
Entrepreneurs are builders, and the lens through which I view Starbucks and the marketplace is somewhat different from what it would be if I were a professionally schooled manager.
Howard Schultz
#29. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.
Stephen R. Covey
#30. The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
Oliver E. Williamson
#31. On the surface he might be callused, but looking through a creative lens, I see layers and textures. He reminds me of a folding chair, closed up and waiting to be shoved in a storage closet. I'm determined to see him unfold.
Katie Kacvinsky
#32. Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.
Lamar Giles
#33. Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
Criss Jami
#34. All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.
C.J. Mahaney
#35. Always put your cap on your lens, because you never know which idiot will bump into your camera. And eventually that idiot will be you.
Ben Tolosa
#36. Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer and struggle. Through the lens of his own miraculous experiences, Mr. Hanagarne illuminates the path to joy and the infinite possibilities of transcendence.
Melanie Rae Thon
#37. If you think about all the light that enters - that enters the lens of a camera, that's much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that's lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact.
Ren Ng
#38. Perspective is a tool used far too infrequently. If people had the courage to alternate their lens every now and then, the world would be a far more beautiful place.
Alyson Richman
#39. If you look at yourself and life through the lens of your ego, you'll feel isolated, ganged up on, alone, dfferent, and not part of the crowd. If you look through the lens of Spirit, knowing we're all one, you'll always feel safe, secure, ad loved.
Sonia Choquette
#40. Dude wore his nerdiness like a Jedi wore his light saber or a Lensman her lens. Couldn't have passed for Normal if he'd wanted to.
Junot Diaz
#41. Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.
Hal Zina Bennett
#43. This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it's just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it's gone.
Robert M. Pirsig
#44. Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just that ... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities.
Dean Koontz
#45. I see everything through a spiritual lens.
Katy Perry
#46. We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#47. Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
Charles Hazlewood
#48. The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast ... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.
Andre Bazin
#49. Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.
Liz Williams
#50. With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#51. People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.
Dallas Campbell
#52. What rivets me to history is seeing / acts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, / look back on us in mercy where we failed ourselves, / see us not one-dimensional but with / the past as your steadying and corrective lens.
Adrienne Rich
#53. When you view yourself through the lens of God's Word, you will better understand God's love for you and the worth you have in His eyes.
Elizabeth George
#54. The # zodiac sign on the # Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act.
Dane Rudhyar
#55. I'm an ER doctor, period. I look at a problem with a certain lens: very action-oriented, very results-oriented.
Raul Ruiz
#56. Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.
James E. Faust
#57. Everything we encounter can have a positive influence in shaping our life when we adopt a lens of Gratitude.
Rob Martin
#58. He said maybe irony is the lens through which we see the picture in reverse
Abigail Thomas
#59. It always matters who the storyteller is. It's a lens.
James Still
#60. The confluence of people, smells and tastes that you are privy to merely by eating on the street is very special. And it is not something that can be replicated indoors. If food is a lens through which to see the world, a seat at one of those tiny tables offers the best view.
Jodi Ettenberg
#61. Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.
John Mackey
#62. She couldn't "heal" him. No woman could. Events that far in the past just couldn't be undone. But perhaps he didn't need a cure, but . . . a lens. Someone who accepted him for the imperfect person he was, and then helped him to see the world clear. Like spectacles did for her.
Tessa Dare
#63. There are events you witness, or in which you participate, that forever remain sacrosanct and inviolate in memory, no matter how painful that memory is, because of the cost that you or others paid in order to be there in that moment when the camera lens clicked shut.
James Lee Burke
#64. And for Christians, the gospel has always been the lens through which Israel's stories are read - which means, for Christians, Jesus, not the Bible, has the final word. The story of God's people has moved on, and so must we.
Peter Enns
#65. She looked lonely through the lens of my telescope, like one of those faraway stars, still visible to our eyes but no longer really there.
Karen Thompson Walker
#66. With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto lens provides a new visual sensation for people: it widens their horizons. And, conversely, the things under our nose invariably look good when blown up really big.
Andreas Feininger
#67. Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
Ayn Rand
#68. He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective.
Isabel Allende
#69. You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.
Christopher Doyle
#70. What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.
Aleksandar Hemon
#71. Christianity brings to fulfilment and completion imperfect and partial insights about reality, scattered abroad in human culture. Tolkien gave Lewis a lens, a way of seeing things, which
Alister E. McGrath
#72. All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.
Karen Traviss
#73. Looking through a metaphoric lens, we are the riverbank, and the water flowing through us is emotion.
Deborah Sandella
#74. Surveillance isn't easy, though. You'll need warm clothes, a camera with telephoto lens, two Thermos flasks (one for tea, t'other for wee) and for God's sake remember your sandwiches.
Alan Partridge
#75. Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.
Robert Zemeckis
#76. I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.
Jesse Johnson
#77. The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.
Wade Davis
#78. Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.
Martin Scorsese
#79. I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.
Julian Ovenden
#80. Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.
Sarah Dessen
#81. I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.
Feist
#82. The second way to control the light is with the aperture in the lens, which is a diaphragm that opens and closes to control the light. It's measured in cryptic little numbers that only mathematicians and practitioners of the occult understand.
David DuChemin
#84. We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.
John Paul Caponigro
#85. Drama is drama, and it's really ... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.
Gore Verbinski
#86. Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.
Judith Kelman
#87. The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.
Dewitt Jones
#88. In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
John Updike
#89. A goal gives you the lens to see the future with clearer vision.
J.R. Rim
#90. The experience of drowning, through the lens of faith, is what Christians call "baptism." But no matter what you call it, the sensation of going under is entirely the same.
Jonathan Martin
#91. He's not really my man," I protested.
One fuzzy white eyebrow rose over the lens of his glasses. "You were certainly ogling him as if he was.
Katie MacAlister
#92. The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.
Philip Zaleski
#94. Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy behind the lens to get it right, focus in. Those are critical little nothing things, but you've got to work with the people who are trying to put it down, in order to get it.
Robert Forster
#95. I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.
John Darnielle
#96. To the oft-asked question, What camera or lens do you use? I can only reply I couldn't tell to save my soul - it is enough for me to know that I have something that will make pictures and that it is in working order.
Edward S. Curtis
#97. A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.
Allen Lacy
#98. who can describe beauty? The reader may smile at this as the far-off echo of a precocious calf love, but he will be wrong. There are beauties so unambiguous that they need no lens of that kind to reveal them; they are visible even to the careless and objective eyes of a child.
C.S. Lewis
#99. I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world.
Russ Roberts
#100. I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
Rita Dove
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