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Steve Barrett, Photographer

PHOTOGRAPHY

In the 20 years that Washington, DC photographer Steve Barrett has been taking pictures, the likes of Michael Jordan, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Spike Lee and Boris Yeltsin have found their way to the end of his lens. He has photographed George Clooney, James Earl Jones and Bill and Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain.

His photos have been featured in Vanity Fair, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, USA Today and Washingtonian, among other business and general interest publications. Alumni magazines have always been some of his favorite clients and he has taken cover and inside feature shots for Harvard, Auburn, Stanford, the Career College Association and Vanderbilt.

“Since I live so close to Washington, DC, dozens of alumni magazines call on me regularly to photograph their DC-based alumni, and also hire me to photograph the politicians and DC insiders that they may be writing about,” he says. “I work hard to be as effective as possible for my clients. I know they are the boss, and I feel lucky to have the opportunity to do what I do.”

View Steve’s photo portfolio www.stevebarrettphotography.com and here: www.alumnimagazinegroup.com.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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