Lenses Quotes

It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings.

Just put on the lens and go.

You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.

What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.

I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it.

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

I hope that this [hacking] does not continue to be viewed purely through a partisan lens.I think there are Republicans as well as Democrats who are concerned about this.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.

Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination.

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.

The most important lens you have is your legs

It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.

I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting.

I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.

Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive.

It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.

Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see.

I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery.

Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

I see everything through a spiritual lens.

I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is what I'd been looking for to resolve some of these inner conflicts and pains.

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

Today's clunky smart glasses will be replaced by smart contact lenses. We'll command them by voice, blinking, or even thinking, to interact visually in 3-D with the Internet.