Dewitt Jones Quotes

“It's not trespassing to go beyond your own boundaries.”

— Dewitt Jones

Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.

— Dewitt Jones

“Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.”

— Dewitt Jones

“Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.”

— Dewitt Jones

“By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong.”

— Dewitt Jones

The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.

— Dewitt Jones

God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes.

— Dewitt Jones

“Celebrate the best in people. Find the light that shines not on us, but within us, when we trust enough to let it out.”

— Dewitt Jones

“So many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer.”

— Dewitt Jones

“As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility ... always another right answer.”

— Dewitt Jones

“So we live in an accelerating possibility curve. Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer on a wave or a bird on a thermal, to use its power to take us where we want to go - to live in uncertainty and yet act with confidence.”

— Dewitt Jones

“Do we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe that they're there? Perception controls our reality, and if we don't believe it, we won't see it.”

— Dewitt Jones

There's always another right answer.

— Dewitt Jones

“Dream the dream, find that extraordinary vision, and keep it in focus.”

— Dewitt Jones

“Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.”

— Dewitt Jones

“F8 And Be There! For years, this was the cry of the photojournalist. It meant that 90% of a great photo was being in the right place at the right time. True, it was simplistic, but in the Age of Photoshop, this maxim is too often forgotten. No matter how much you play with the bits and bytes, the best images always start out with a great vision, clearly and cleanly seen.”

— Dewitt Jones

“See the world with new eyes every day.”

— Dewitt Jones

“I can do what I love or I can love what I do. Learn to love the task in front of you.”

— Dewitt Jones

Don't be the best in the world. Be the best for the world.

— Dewitt Jones

“When we believe it, we will see it!”

— Dewitt Jones

The world is an astounding place, and we can see it every day, if we're open to it.

— Dewitt Jones

“What is creativity? Having spent my life in one creative endeavor after another, I can tell you it's not something magical or mystical. It's something very simple. To me, it's just a moment - a moment where we look at the ordinary, but we see the extraordinary. It happens all the time in my photography.”

— Dewitt Jones

We are an integral part of beauty, not something separate.

— Dewitt Jones

“The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.”

— Dewitt Jones

Start out by celebrating the best in the situation because it allows us to fall in love with it, which connects us to our passion and emancipates the energy.

— Dewitt Jones