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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.

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

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

– Albert Einstein

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Barack Obama

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

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

– Goldie Hawn

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

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Steven Schussler

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Albert Schweitzer

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Charles Dickens

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

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

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– Byron Katie

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

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

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Anna Pavlova

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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