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Quotes of the Day for 20 February 2005 - Zones

Ansel Easton Adams was born at San Francisco on this day in 1902. I can't think of another photographer who brought us as many images in such incredible focus and marvelous perspective. In addition to his own images, his contribution to photography was immense. He developed "The Zone System", a process of evaluating individual zones of light and dark in the subjects he was recording, the better to reproduce the whole. It may apply to more than photography.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
     - Louis Aragon, 1897 - 1982

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
     - Peter McWilliams

There is a fifth dimension beyond those known to man. It is a dimension vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between the pit of his fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area called the Twilight Zone.
     - Rod Serling, 1924 - 1975

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
     - Brian Tracy

Give me more love or more disdain;
The torrid or the frozen zone.
     - Thomas Carew

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
     - Christopher Morley, 1890 - 1957

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