Seeing Life Through A Lens Quotes

There's no bonus to seeing life through a dirty lens, even if it feels more real. ~ Sally Hanan

Seeing through the lens started to become a part of my day-to-day life and I focused on the everyday...I looked for beauty in things that often go unnoticed. The lens allowed me to see the beauty from behind the safe remove of a steel-and-leather-covered folding camera. ~ Lance Reynald

When a person looks through a colored lens, everything seems to be that color. If the lens is tinted yellow or blue, everything seems yellow or blue. A person who looks at life through the lens of gratitude will always find things to be grateful for. ~ Zelig Pliskin

Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer ... I often see things after the fact. This revelatory quality includes a sense of playfulness, because you're not sure what the consequences are going to be. ~ Christian Marclay

It helps to see the world through a different lens, and that's what we wanted to do with Instagram. We wanted to give everyone the same feeling of discovering the world around you through a different lens. ~ Kevin Systrom

Perception is the lens through which we interpret experiences,
and when we change the lens we change how we experience. ~ Aisha Mirza

Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine. ~ Abraham Verghese

I see everything through a spiritual lens. ~ Katy Perry

If we look through a piece of glass, irregularities and impurities may distort and discolor the impression of what we see. If we regard something through a convex lens, it appears to be upside down. But if we place a concave lens in front of the convex lens, we correct the distortion in the convex lens and things no longer appear topsy-turvy. Each one of us regards the world through his own lens, his own glasses. The effect of those glasses is that, even though we may be looking at the same thing, not all of us actually see the same thing. The lenses are ground by each individual's upbringing, disposition and other factors. ~ Inge Hegeler

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world. ~ Stephen R. Covey

The next time you find yourself ashamed of your reflection, put on your new lens. Not the lens of the world, but the lens of the Word. The only lens that will reveal your true reflection. ~ Tessa Emily Hall

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism. ~ Criss Jami

I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist. ~ Carol Berg

I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were. ~ Kenneth Oppel

If you look at yourself and life through the lens of your ego, you'll feel isolated, ganged up on, alone, dfferent, and not part of the crowd. If you look through the lens of Spirit, knowing we're all one, you'll always feel safe, secure, ad loved. ~ Sonia Choquette

Our agenda is the lens through which we view the world that is in reality a blindfold through which we miss the world. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself. ~ Bruce Weber

The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge. ~ Sissela Bok

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town. ~ Terry Pratchett

The trouble with us
daydreamers is,
we tend to watch
the world through
a coloured lens.

Then one day
we fall
and the lens cracks. ~ The Dreamer

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability. ~ Klaus Schwab

I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees.

"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered. ~ Ann Patchett

Behind every beautiful things there's an ugly situation ~ Beta Lens

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens. ~ Carine Roitfeld

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different. ~ Albert Einstein

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else. ~ Sean Covey

... There is a lens through which we view every single other person in this world. With every piece of information we gain about them, the lens is adjusted, ever so slightly, blurring... coloring... changing how we see them. ~ Karole Cozzo

We will look into God's eyes and see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for his own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time. Why? Because not only will we see God, he will be the lens through which we see everything else - other people, ourselves, and the events of our earthly lives. ~ Randy Alcorn

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe. ~ Alex Steffen

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text. ~ Alison Jackson

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

We can either approach Jiu Jitsu through the lens of the "real world" or we can approach the real world through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have found the latter to be far more rewarding. ~ Chris Matakas

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through. ~ Martin Scorsese

I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens. ~ Kevin J. Fitzgerald

It's not the reality that shapes us, it's the lens through which we view the reality that shapes our experience of it. Even our bodies and immune system respond to the lens through which we view the world around us. ~ One Day University

You can frame up your life however you like; it's the lens that you see through that will bring you sight ~ Sonya Withrow

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective. ~ Elizabeth Thornton

Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain. ~ Stephenie Meyer

Let us see our life through the lens of our love,
we will find that life is amazing and magical. ~ Debasish Mridha

Say what you see and you experience yourself through your style of seeing and saying. ~ Mark Doty

All paths are seen, through the prism of fate ~ Mladen Đorđević

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time. ~ Molly Antopol

I've always felt that the reality of life is best expressed through allegory that transcends ... well, the reality of life. Fantasy is the lens through which I make sense of the world. Plus, it's a lot more entertaining. ~ Brea Nicole Bond

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart. ~ Bryant H. McGill

When the vision of your dreams gets blurry remember to readjust your lens. ~ Angel Moreira

Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design. ~ Yves Behar

Fear causes problems in your life because it fogs the lens through which you see yourself and your world. ~ Kimberly Giles

There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man 'discovered' through an election. ~ Adolf Hitler

I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way. ~ John Darnielle

Looking through a metaphoric lens, we are the riverbank, and the water flowing through us is emotion. ~ Deborah Sandella

I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event. ~ Jesse Johnson

I've realized people can live in a world they've personally constructed through a distorted lens of guilt and shame, whether they deserve it or not. ~ Kristy McMorlan

The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your prejudices. ~ Paul La Farge

When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed. ~ Bill Brandt

A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing. ~ Allen Lacy

I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes. ~ John Lasseter

In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food. ~ Kate Christensen

Seeing through is rarely seeing into. ~ Elizabeth Bibesco

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens. ~ Jonathan Evison

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. ~ V.S. Naipaul

Unless you're able to look at marriage through the lens of Scripture instead of through your own fears or romanticism, through your particular experience, or through your culture's narrow perspectives, you won't be able to make intelligent decisions about your own marital future. ~ Timothy Keller

But I don't want to spend my life letting my pain be the lens through which I see the world. ~ Melissa Tagg

It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation. ~ Ville Valo

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world. ~ Liz Williams

If we only see things through the cold-eyed lens of factuality and don't listen to the yearning and screaming of unexpressed feelings, life may remain bleak in a mire of clinical hollowness, sodden in apathy and indifference. ("Morning after") ~ Erik Pevernagie

I see everything outside of me through the lens of everything that is inside of me. Therefore, before I look at the world outside I'd be wise to look at the lens inside. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing. ~ Elliott Erwitt

Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work. ~ Bill Jay

Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable. ~ Mick Ebeling

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

I tried to render the Afghan war as much as I could fro the perspective of the Afghans. I have served as an advisor to Afghan troops, and much of my war experience was seen through the lens of fighting that war alongside Afghan soldiers. ~ Elliot Ackerman

Viewing ecology through the lens of individual life histories or the life cycles of species makes it easy to grasp the Hindu conception of life as drama. Every creature and plant has a separate path of sustenance and survival on the way to their final dance with Shiva. ~ Richard J. Borden

Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through. ~ Tarun Sharma

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important. ~ Mariska Hargitay

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

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go ... That's the kind of lens I'm looking for. ~ Sally Mann

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour. ~ Julia Margaret Cameron

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions. ~ Francine Prose

Well, we went through a lot of names. But seeing as, musically, I wanted to swing through the jungle baring my arse, I thought Gorillaz was a perfect name. ~ Murdoc Niccals

Many churches approach ministry to people through the lens of an educational system instead of through the analogy of the family. ~ Ross Parsley

There is a moral imperative to seeing mental health through the same lens we use for other pathologies or illnesses. Being sad or overwhelmed is normal, much as being short of breath after a run is normal. Both become abnormal when they happen with no apparent cause and are hard to stop. Those situations need medical attention. ~ Matthew Goldfinger

Christianity brings to fulfilment and completion imperfect and partial insights about reality, scattered abroad in human culture. Tolkien gave Lewis a lens, a way of seeing things, which ~ Alister E. McGrath

Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job. ~ Wayne Dyer

What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it's not about pattern, but the notion of architecture through the lens of textile, rather than architecture through the lens of brick and mortar. ~ David Adjaye

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

Walk freely with confidence, no longer looking through the lens of rejection. ~ Joy Marino

There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing about them is dull or uninteresting or unplugged. ~ Luci Swindoll

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully. ~ Bryant McGill

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears. ~ Alice Oswald

The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation. ~ Oliver E. Williamson

It's easy to step back and see something through the lens of personal bias. ~ Karen Kingsbury

Would she be able to bear never seeing him again? Never in this life? ~ Mary Balogh

Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive. ~ David Hewson

If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he
had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it. ~ Annie Proulx

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. ~ Eve Arnold

Winnie, when I first saw you, the giant lens that I've had on my future came into focus. It was like everything was blurry before, and then when you arrived, it was crystal clear. ~ Nisha Sharma

Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle. ~ Hanneli Mustaparta