Just work. Don't wait. Everybody's waiting until they have the perfect idea to start working. Even if you have an inkling of what you want to do, start moving towards it. And it's going to flesh itself out through the process of moving towards the goal. And by the time you get to where you're going to be, it's not going to look anything like it did when you sat on the couch thinking about it. And if you wait until it's perfect in your head before you get of the couch and start working on it, that's never going to happen.

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There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.

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So what I am always looking for is, I'm always looking for something that that person has told me that nobody else has told me. It is normally not an opinion, and it is normally not a philosophy. It's almost always a story. Because we all share similar philosophies, we all share similar opinions on a lot of different issues, but all of our stories are our own.

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Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.

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Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.'

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The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

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HONY is one of the only things keeping people from getting lost in the matrix.

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getting-lost lost people

People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.

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I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.

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It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.

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different persons reading

Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.

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hard-work photography photographer

Recently we received an invitation that proved just that.

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invitations

Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.

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range emotion humans

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

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strings iphone age

The tragedy of their stories, learning what they experienced in Syria and Iraq, has been completely eye-opening to me, it is a story I want to be able to tell to my audience.

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politics

I've watched you retweet racist images. I've watched you retweet racist lies. I've watched you take 48 hours to disavow white supremacy. I've watched you joyfully encourage violence, and promise to 'pay the legal fees' of those who commit violence on your behalf.

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politics

I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound.

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say beginning people world

Each time I arrived in a new city, I'd get lost in the streets and photograph everything that looked interesting, taking nearly a thousand photographs every day. After each day of shooting, I'd select 30 or 40 of my favorite photographs and post them on Facebook. I named the albums after my first impression of each city.

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The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.

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emotions powerful moments people

Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging.

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place social-media media people

When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come from a horror movie. So many people talk about seeing their families get murdered before their eyes. Then I go to Central Park, and people are talking about their third divorce and paying tuition.

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