Top 100 Your Picture Quotes

#1. Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

Alexis Ohanian

#2. You put the picture of the ideal person in your head and then someone comes along and they don't fit that ideal at all. But somehow there is something about them that is so attractive. Everyone that I have fallen for has not fit that ideal at all.

Emily VanCamp

#3. Take you picture off the wall
And carry it away
Dye your hair the shades of fall
Don't let time turn it to gray

Don't think of me, I'll be all right
Seems I've always done okay
Just give me one more kiss good night
For the last time, turn away

Emily Ruskovich

#4. A choice is like a jigsaw puzzle, darling troll. Your worries are the corner pieces, and your hopes are the edge pieces, and you, Hawthorn, dearest of boys, are the middle pieces, all funny-shaped and stubborn. But the picture, the picture was there all along, just waiting for you to get on with it.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

Allen Klein

#6. Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told?

Paul Washer

#7. We can't, little cricket. It is against the law to fly this flag - even to put up a picture of it. Korea is part of the Japanese Empire now. But someday this will be our own country once more. Your own country.

Linda Sue Park

#8. Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.

Tony Dungy

#9. Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child, or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn't necessarily have to mean expensive.

Aerin Lauder

#10. When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick.

Jeffrey Deitch

#11. Picture the rest of your life without Del and give me a one word description of it."
"I can't decide between bleak or pathetic," Tyler admitted finally. "There you go.

Shayla Black

#12. Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.

Howard Pyle

#13. See the big picture and details of everything in your life (zoom out, then zoom in).

Ehab Atalla

#14. To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

Eli Pariser

#15. You merely picture in your mind having already accomplished or attained your goal, whatever it may be. Hold it firmly in your thoughts, picture it as already being yours, and amazing things will happen.

Og Mandino

#16. Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. If you were a country," I said, "what would your national anthem be?"
I meant a pre-existing song
"What a Wonderful World" or "Que Sera, Sera" or something to make it a joke, like "Hey Ya!" ("I would like, more than anything else, for my nation to be shaken like a Polaroid picture.")

David Levithan

#18. Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.

Sloane Crosley

#19. Oh no, Trace Corbin. If you think for one second that we're going to - " "Going to what, Kylie Lou?" His face was the picture of innocence. She knew hers was likely glowing with embarrassment. "I see you have your mind in the gutter. Nice. I approve.

Caisey Quinn

#20. As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.

Anthony Browne

#21. You might be a redneck if you have a picture of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, or Elvis over your fireplace.

Jeff Foxworthy

#22. A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

R.J. Palacio

#23. What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

Isaac Marion

#24. Gifts that are most appreciated are often associated with the country, or even better, the specific location you are from. These kinds of gifts may include coffee table picture books of your city or national parks, or mugs, t-shirts, paperweights, and so on that display your company or school logo.

Matthew B. Christensen

#25. The more clear and definite you make your picture then,and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be, and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.

Wallace D. Wattles

#26. Weddings are about fantasies - you understand? Your job is to photograph the fantasy, not the reality. Never the reality. If I ever see another picture like that, you're fired.

Mira Jacob

#27. Why do you have a picture of my mentor, Siri, on the shelf above your fireplace? - Evaline.
...
That's not your mentor... That's my mother, Desiree. - Mina

Colleen Gleason

#28. I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.

Zu Vincent

#29. Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.

Janet Macunovich

#30. I clearly saw us from outside, like in a picture: we are not people, we are a road sign warning: "Stop and thank luck because such fate didn't befall you as befell us, and only then keep going your way".

Igor Eliseev

#31. Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture

KRS-One

#32. Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

Caspar David Friedrich

#33. As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.

Emmet Gowin

#34. If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

Padma Lakshmi

#35. Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

T.F. Hodge

#36. Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

James L. Brooks

#37. Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions; make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.

Henry James

#38. Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.

Oscar Wilde

#39. The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

Earl Nightingale

#40. Even if you're walking through the airport or going to pick up your mail, if you meet a fan and they have a camera, they will take a picture of you and millions could potentially see that picture - if it's picked up by a blog or whatever.

Keri Hilson

#41. I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.

Olafur Eliasson

#42. Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

Paul Gauguin

#43. Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.

Jay Maisel

#44. Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?

Banksy

#45. Then the cow asked:
"What is a mirror?"
"It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it, and there you see the picture, and it is so dainty and charming and ethereal and inspiring in its unimaginable beauty that your head turns round and round, and you almost swoon with ecstasy.

Mark Twain

#46. Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the premise. So you have to create the premise, paint the picture and then deliver the punch line.

Jon Stewart

#47. Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.

Sue Wicks

#48. I'm staying with film, and with silver prints, and no Photoshop. That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer ... I'm not anti-digital; I just think, for me, film works better.

Mary Ellen Mark

#49. Every thought you cultivate is a brushstroke on the canvas of your life. Your life then, is an outer picture of your inner thoughts.

Toni Sorenson

#50. Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.

Martha Beck

#51. Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Theodore Robinson

#52. My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

Andrew Wyeth

#53. Change the size of your dreams if that's what's keep you static. Go for bigger dreams, but start in a small way. See the bigger picture and live by the desire to become excellent!

Israelmore Ayivor

#54. All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books.

Russell Smith

#55. If you don't figure out your main reason of being born, chances are that, you will fall into another plan which is unlikely to make you to print out your bigger picture!

Israelmore Ayivor

#56. The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.

John Shaffer

#57. Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire

Emmet Fox

#58. It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

Vincent Van Gogh

#59. You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.

Antonin Kratochvil

#60. When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.

Jason Fulford

#61. Are you seeking power because that is your true desire, Brennan?
Or because you have a picture in your mind, of the role that you play as an ambitious young man, and you think it is what someone playing your role would do?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#62. Procrastination and excuses really have the energy to make your picture small and blurred if you offer them that image!

Israelmore Ayivor

#63. Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

LL Cool J

#64. If you're public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you're nervous about a date and thinking, 'I'm gonna be a dork,' picture yourself being funny. Then it will be familiar to your brain.

Lindsey Stirling

#65. You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.

Claude M. Bristol

#66. What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?

Sherley Mondesir-Prescott

#67. You know how as a kid you picture yourself with a tall, handsome husband, and you imagine him cuddling your baby? Ben is like that, like, on crack.

Jennifer Garner

#68. Draw a picture of your life in your heart and on paper. Now make it a reality.

Debasish Mridha

#69. If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in the events and their observer, witness, interpreter.

Micha Bar-Am

#70. Would you do something for me? Please? Would you just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with that guy, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I could do it again, if I thought it's what you really wanted.

Nicholas Sparks

#71. Lemme take your picture! You fucking bok gwai low got a face carved out of rotten potato cured in dogshit, runover with a towtruck driven by Hellen Keller in a puke fit on pills ...

Frank Chin

#72. Never fear having your ideas stolen. Your creative idea is a image you are painting like a picture on a canvas, they may "steal" your idea, however they cannot steal your paints.

Sumner Davenport

#73. And flowering all the year round, especially at Christmas - make your picture complete,' said he. 'No,

Elizabeth Gaskell

#74. I missed out on a big part of your life, Gabi. You look absolutely beautiful in this picture. I have to tell you something before I lose my nerve." He turned. "I've loved-"
The .22 glistened underneath the florescent lighting.

Wendy Ely

#75. "I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

Winston Churchill

#76. Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way. Picture yourself in your mind's eye as having already achieved this goal. See your self doing the things you will be doing when you have reached your goal.

Earl Nightingale

#77. The yogic scriptures paint a picture of perfection, and perfection can be your aim, but I can tell you sad stories about myself and others who have entered into a state of premature holiness with unpleasant consequences.

Gudjon Bergmann

#78. Keep a clear picture of your goals in mind.
The power of imagination is unlimited.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#79. Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

Sri Chinmoy

#80. In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

Erich Von Stroheim

#81. Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail.

Larry Flynt

#82. It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.

Joel Kinnaman

#83. I rarely give advice - your personal growth will only make me look worse by comparison - but as a suggestion, find your most psychotic baby picture and have it on hand for those days when you want to throw in the towel. It is both joyful and effective.

Anna Kendrick

#84. When the picture is too close to your face you lose the sight, when the future is too close to your face you see the light.

Mohlalefi J Motsima

#85. As a professional, you can afford to pick some stocks and be wrong about a few of them. To keep your job, you cannot take the risk of being seen to be wrong about the 'big picture' for very long.

Jeremy Grantham

#86. I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you.

Santosh Kalwar

#87. Try and live in the present moment. Create appointments with yourself to specifically work on your mental picture. Then fall back into the present moment.

Christopher Dines

#88. Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.

Brian Tracy

#89. If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth.

Peace Pilgrim

#90. Take your picture off the wall
So I won't have to see your eyes
And maybe soon I won't recall
The painful things that once were nice

Emily Ruskovich

#91. Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#92. Your dominion has nothing to do with a negative person's opinion. Flee from people who only hung on passport-size dreams and you'll see your bigger picture! Go for the big one!

Israelmore Ayivor

#93. In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and you can thank me anytime. Now, do I have to paint another picture for you, or do you think you can take it from here by yourself without screwing up?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#94. This is a perfect picture of what you want to develop in the soul of your child: a desire to do the right things and to avoid the wrong ones because of empathic concern for others and because of a healthy respect for the demands of God's reality.

Henry Cloud

#95. Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.

Sydney Banks

#96. You have to move beyond that vision of the way your life has always looked and begin to picture your life as you want it to look.

Larry Winget

#97. See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large; go for it. Feel free to wake up and print your bigger picture!

Israelmore Ayivor

#98. memorizing history in school, you should picture yourself in the Battle of Hastings and pretend to lose your legs. You won't forget it then. Parietal

Ruby Wax

#99. helps you to habitually put God into every picture, seasoning your feelings and thoughts, lifting you up when disappointed, and humbling you when successful.

Timothy J. Keller

#100. Just picture coming home and finding the Dark Mark hovering over your house, and knowing what you're about to find inside. . . ." Mr. Weasley winced. "Everyone's worst fear . . . the very worst . . .

J.K. Rowling

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