"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."   

Michelangelo

” Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ”

Ansel Adams

"Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love."

Thomas Kempis

"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

Blaise Pascal

"The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised." 

Norman Vincent Peale

"People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus."

Marcel Proust

"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."

Simone de Beauvoir

"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman" (George Soros)

 Dans une lettre aux investisseurs, la société de gestion de "l'homme qui fit sauter la banque d'Angleterre" explique la décision de se fermer au public. Un milliard de dollars devrait être remboursé d'ici à la fin de l'année.

  Mauvaise nouvelle pour les investisseurs qui souhaitent profiter de l'expérience du milliardaire américano-hongrois, George Soros. Soros Fund Management, sa société de gestion, n'accepte plus les nouveaux entrants. Ni même de conserver les anciens. La faute à... la réglementation américaine! (La suite de l'article de La Tribune : La Tribune )

George Soros, né György Schwartz, a connu l'occupation nazie en Hongrie. D'origine juive, il est contraint en 1936 de changer de nom. Il fuit le régime communiste en 1947 en gagnant la Grande Bretagne. En 1952, il suit les cours du philosophe anti-communiste Karl Kopper à la London School of Economics. En 1956, il émigre aux États-Unis avec une idée en tête : gagner un demi-million de dollars. Pari réussi, se fortune s'élève aujourd'hui à 14,5 milliards de dollars, ce qui l'érige au rang de 46ème fortune mondiale selon le classement Forbe's 2011.

Puissant et richissime, il n'est pas rare que George Soros prête de l'argent aux États. A des émissaires russes qui demandait un prêt supplémentaire, il rétorque sèchement : « Il ne faut pas que ça devienne une habitude ! » faisant référence à un précédent prêt qu'il a consenti à Boris Eltsine afin que celui-ci tienne son engagement de payer les arriérés de retraite.  (source : http://zonebourse.com)

"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."

(George Soros) 

"Nobody can dance for you. Nobody can sing your song. Nobody will write your story. You are the only one who can design your destiny. You’re the author of your life. You write your own story. The pencil is in your hand and the result is what you write."

(Lisa Nichols)

Let Yourself Go!

Pour finir une journée pluvieuse..! J'adore ! Cette sorte de gym me réchauffe, me donne de l'énergie et du moral ! Puis 100 pompes et je suis déja en forme... ! ;)

 

"Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do."

Brian Tracy

"I give myself the gift of freedom from the past, and move with joy into the now. "

Louise L. Hay

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Mark Twain

"Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist."

David Ben Gurion

"Earth laughs in flowers"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

"In the Garden, my soul is sunshine."

"Think of a car driving through the night. The headlights only go a hundred or two hundred feet forward, and you can make it all the way from California to New York driving through the dark, because all you have to see is the next two hundred feet. And that's how life tends to unfold before us. If we just trust that the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, and the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, your life will keep unfolding. And it will eventually get you to the destination of whatever it is you truly want, because you want it." 

The Secret

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Walt Whitman

"Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun."

Kahlil Gibran

"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."

David Bailey