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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.

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Napoleon

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

– Albert Einstein

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Robert Frost

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Marcel Proust

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

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Hindu Proverb

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Winston Churchill

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

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

– William Shakespeare

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

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

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

– A wisdomism

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 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

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

– Alfred Adler

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

– Magical

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

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

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

– Avenida Margarita

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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