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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.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

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

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– Marcel Proust

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

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

– Albert Schweitzer

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Aristotle

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

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

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

– Basil King

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

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

– Francesca Reigle

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

– Carl Rogers

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– Robert H. Schuller

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

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

– Ray Bradbury

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Eve Ensler

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

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

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

– William James

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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"

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Chinese proverb

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

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Napoleon

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

    Articles by Steve Barrett