Berenice Abbott Quotes

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

If something's important to you, you make time for it.

A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.

Knowing what to take out and what to leave in is what separates the men from the boys.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.

The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.

Lette me stande to the maine chance.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Work hard at work worth doing.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.