A Quote by Ansel Adams

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams
American - Photographer
February 20, 1902 - April 22, 1984

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

Jose Bergamin

It's the most important thing - especially for a young player who wants to improve - to improve his talent and learn, and the best way to do that is to play in the games.

Xherdan Shaqiri

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

Rodney Yee

I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is "One hour photo lab" or "Be a photographer in Disneyland" or jobs that no one really wants as a photographer. I saw, by chance, this ad that said, "Wanted: Photographer for premieres and Hollywood events" and I thought, "This can not be real. This is ridiculous. No one advertizes this!" I was really suspect about it.

Jeff Vespa

good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.

J.R. Ward

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

David Tudor

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

Robert Downey, Jr.

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

Freeman Patterson

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

David Sedaris

It's really important for a young guy to have a coach who wants to improve you and believes in you.

Joshua Kimmich

The biggest of the big ideas that guided the strategy during the surge was explicit recognition that the most important terrain in the campaign in Iraq was the human terrain - the people - and our most important mission was to improve their security.

David Petraeus

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

Sterling W Sill

What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at this way: If the equipment in a studio is a high performance car, and the mastering engineer is the driver, putting the car on ice and trying to achieve a good lap time is like trying to master music in a bad room, all the equipment in the world wont help you connect with the music and let you hear what's really happening. The room is the environment in which the mix performs to its potential, as the road is to the car. It's hugely important.

Chris McCormack

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.

Margaret Bourke-White

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.