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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.

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

– Robert H. Schuller

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

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

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

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– General Omar Bradley

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Magical

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

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

– Oscar Wilde

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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"

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Goldie Hawn

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"

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

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

– Chinese proverb

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

– Ray Bradbury

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Muhammad Yunus

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Francesca Reigle

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

– Nelson Mandela

    Articles by Steve Barrett