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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.

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

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

– Carl Rogers

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Anita Roddick

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

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Lord Chesterfield

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

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

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

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

– Corita Kent

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

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

    Articles by Steve Barrett