Ken Rockwell quote: "Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need."

You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less...
KEN ROCKWELL

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.
KEN ROCKWELL

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right plac...
KEN ROCKWELL

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tool...
KEN ROCKWELL

I grew up on films.
SAM ROCKWELL

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actor...
SAM ROCKWELL

I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in ...
SAM ROCKWELL

Well, you know, it's fun to sign autographs still for me. I don't sign that many.
SAM ROCKWELL

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy P...
SAM ROCKWELL

Some actors don't want to, but I prefer to. I like to collaborate. Sometimes you have to keep it...
SAM ROCKWELL

I took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn...
SAM ROCKWELL

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.
SAM ROCKWELL

You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
SAM ROCKWELL

I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the ...
SAM ROCKWELL

I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.
SAM ROCKWELL

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
SAM ROCKWELL

I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.
SAM ROCKWELL

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she...
SAM ROCKWELL

One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a...
SAM ROCKWELL

After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so m...
SAM ROCKWELL

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
SAM ROCKWELL

I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too ...
SAM ROCKWELL

I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like B...
SAM ROCKWELL

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great m...
SAM ROCKWELL

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like ...
SAM ROCKWELL

I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It...
SAM ROCKWELL

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
SAM ROCKWELL

Money is power and power gives you choice.
SAM ROCKWELL

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of cou...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actor...
SAM ROCKWELL

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!
NORMAN ROCKWELL

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see,...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinv...
DAVID ROCKWELL

Three weeks ago, you had a surprisingly strong performance by 'Deep Impact.' Next week, 'The Horse W...
ARTHUR ROCKWELL

Maybe it was accelerated by the disappointing second quarter.
ARTHUR ROCKWELL

They obviously have owned up to the fact that this is the way they are going. They don't feel comfor...
ARTHUR ROCKWELL

A traditional network is still the only way for a big advertiser to get a big audience.
ARTHUR ROCKWELL

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see,...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character ...
SAM ROCKWELL

I'm the oldest antique in town.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, to...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, ...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. S...
SAM ROCKWELL

You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I n...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Lady Bird Johnson had that extra-special Southern charm that you just can't resist. Mrs. Goldwater w...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme me...
DAVID ROCKWELL

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustr...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feel...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I've always loved Dickens. And Henry James. Tolstoy, Dostoevski.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Chavez likes to poke the U.S., ... And he's been aligning himself with folks like Fidel Castro.
RICK ROCKWELL

We got a good look at the Himalayas, which they tell me are about 28,000 feet high. I expected to be...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Min...
SAM ROCKWELL

Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view...
SAM ROCKWELL

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Av...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Ver...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

There are 101 uses for duct tape and multiple uses for plastic sheeting.
LARRY ROCKWELL

While this was nothing to sneeze at, it was certainly less than on previous occasions.
KEITH ROCKWELL

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Anything can happen in the tournament.
BILL ROCKWELL

Let's lead by example because the eyes are kind of on us. Instead of being negative toward it, let's...
BILL ROCKWELL

I try talk about a theme before every game, something that gives us a purpose.
BILL ROCKWELL

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about ...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Our sauerkraut is prepared in the morning by the ladies, ... it's not your ordinary sauerkraut - it'...
GEORGE ROCKWELL

I was subjected to everything German as a young lad growing up, like traditional songs and talk of t...
GEORGE ROCKWELL

We love them, and they love to perform for us.
GEORGE ROCKWELL

It's almost unprecedented to be dealing with this many evacuees so far away from the impact area.
LARRY ROCKWELL

Windblown: Contemporary American Weathervanes.
NORMAN ROCKWELL

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jol...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

The key is to have a kind of core DNA - a series of pieces that are part of the look of the restaura...
DAVID ROCKWELL

If you look at that picture for the 1964 election, you'll see I showed three different poses of John...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the ...
ROCKWELL KENT

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more ...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just rea...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

There's a sweetness to it.
DAVID ROCKWELL

We identify with her pain and grieving.
DAVID ROCKWELL

For me the most interesting part of theater is the relationship between the audience and the perform...
DAVID ROCKWELL

It creates a kind of landmark that people know when they go to Rosa. It's almost like an oasis. It's...
DAVID ROCKWELL

What we've done (in Detroit) is created a movie set so it gives movie-goers a chance to enter a spac...
DAVID ROCKWELL

We're showing the romance of travel at a different scale -- not at the level of a whole building, bu...
DAVID ROCKWELL

[The space marks Rockwell's first airport project, even if it is more about hospitality than transpo...
DAVID ROCKWELL

You've got to be careful, because it really is hard on the knees and joints.
EMILY ROCKWELL

Their jumps are bigger, vertical and horizontal, and they are faster because of leg strength.
EMILY ROCKWELL

You should let your muscles rest.
EMILY ROCKWELL

You can really raise your heart rate, burn fat and tone your lower body.
EMILY ROCKWELL

If you have these big huge goals they are not as attainable as smaller goals. It's better to start o...
EMILY ROCKWELL

You sit down afterward and you talk about it. 'Well, what could I have done here?' ... He's like a m...
JOHN ROCKWELL

I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the mos...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

It has been done. The big breakthrough has been achieved.
KEITH ROCKWELL

I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once...
NORMAN ROCKWELL

Folktales and Folk Art
NORMAN ROCKWELL

I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's ...
DAVID ROCKWELL

[But have no fear, there will be beer - the 4-H Club will sell Amber Bock by Budweiser.] It's a dark...
GEORGE ROCKWELL

We saw a lot of happy tears shed by our volunteers. And we saw a lot of happy tears shed by our clie...
LARRY ROCKWELL

We're looking at a disaster that will take months for people to recover from. We're in it for the lo...
LARRY ROCKWELL

You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is ther...
DAVID ROCKWELL

A lot of the residents and businesses will need what we call a [Customer Premise Equipment] device. ...
KARRIE ROCKWELL

Each access point pulls the electricity of about a 40-watt light bulb.
KARRIE ROCKWELL

Some people will like the flexibility to take their account wherever they want to go. This gives peo...
KARRIE ROCKWELL

We have deployed 600 access points (transmitters that send radio signals to wireless-enabled compute...
KARRIE ROCKWELL

We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be ...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for yea...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. ...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our he...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebre...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times it is the way we not only tolerate ...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed ...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL

I have met survivors from different parts of the country who have reported being ritually abused, so...
ROBERT B. ROCKWELL

It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense f...
KEN SALAZAR

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than ...
KEN VENTURI

'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant...
KEN GOLDBERG

My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find ...
KEN BRUEN

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.
KEN STARR

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
KEN HENSLEY

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and...
KEN HENSLEY

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a l...
KEN BURNS

When in doubt, use brute force.
KEN THOMPSON

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered someth...
KEN KESEY

The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.
KEN BRUEN

What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to the mind? Our unity is...
KEN LEVINE

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-poi...
KEN SALAZAR

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio li...
KEN CURTIS

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
KEN JENNINGS

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims o...
KEN DODD

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play ...
KEN HENSLEY

There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
KEN LOEFFLER

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds ...
KEN LIU

I am a very bottom-up thinker.
KEN THOMPSON

The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing spe...
KEN JENNINGS

I gave up many times but I never quit.
KEN POIROT

Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I ha...
KEN LIU

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
KEN KESEY

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.
THOMAS KEN

"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!...
KEN KESEY

Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key.
KEN SCHOLES

The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
KEN GILBERT

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
KEN BLANCHARD

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.
KEN MASON

What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Str...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I never use notes, they interfere with me.
KEN BLANCHARD

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative co...
KEN BLANCHARD

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you a...
KEN BLANCHARD

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
KEN BLANCHARD

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery in...
KEN KESEY

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you mee...
KEN KEYS

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
KEN BLANCHARD

The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, t...
KEN KONECKI

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
KEN ADELMAN

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intentio...
KEN BLANCHARD

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
KEN HUDGINS

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minut...
KEN DODD

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your ...
KEN CAREY

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ...
KEN BURNS

You do not have enough data to assign value to any action in the book Starseed Transmissions.
KEN CAREY

What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home.
KEN HAMMOND

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball.
KEN HARRELSON

Take what you can use and let the rest go by
KEN KESEY

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
KEN OLSEN

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
KEN HAKUTA

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify t...
KEN BURNS

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
KEN KESEY

If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegor...
KEN HAM

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the fa...
KEN AULETTA

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is ...
KEN MEHLMAN

What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I...
KEN LIU

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results...
KEN ROBINSON

Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were ...
KEN HAM

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good ...
KEN FOLLETT

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each...
KEN ROBINSON

Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with li...
KEN JEONG

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in ...
KEN ROBINSON

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
KEN VENTURI

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at ...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.
KEN CUCCINELLI

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
KEN KESEY

I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issue...
KEN MEHLMAN

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
KEN BLANCHARD

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
KEN KESEY

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessi...
KEN BLANCHARD

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no l...
KEN BLANCHARD

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in rel...
KEN BLANCHARD

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, n...
KEN BLANCHARD

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
KEN BLANCHARD

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
KEN WILBER

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
KEN KESEY

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were...
KEN ROBINSON

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where every...
KEN ROBINSON

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other is...
KEN BUCK

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity...
KEN ROBINSON

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions...
KEN ROBINSON

There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in school...
KEN ROBINSON

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that cre...
KEN ROBINSON

Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.

Ken Rockwell

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