Al Leiter Quotes

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

We're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that.

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

We can't be French and Muslim at the same time. And that's exactly what ISIS wants that population to think.

ISIS, in some cases like Paris, may actually try to direct. But what it's really trying to do is inspire. So its directed activities are these inspired attacks.

When you do have really tapped out resources that cover so many investigations, it can help you move through and discard some faster.

They [ French] still have an open border in Europe. And they have a Europe which doesn't have an integrated intelligence system like we do in the United States.

I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have.

I think the refugee problem is Europe is vastly worse than we have in the United States.

You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.