John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

The camera’s not a camera, really. It’s an open door we need to walk through. It’s up to us to keep moving our feet.

Do not be afraid of mistakes. They will be with you always,every time you put a camera to your eye. [If you] shoot safe, and don't at least occasionally court disaster, you are not trying. Time to hang up the camera.

No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.