Top 22 Documenting Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Documenting Quotes from famous people such as Evan Osnos, Gigi Gorgeous, Nick Woodman, Gary Ryan Blair, Thomas Newman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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For my book, ‘Age of Ambition,’ I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced.
Evan Osnos
I love documenting. Having these videos forever is priceless to me, so I think I will be doing it forever, but who knows if YouTube is gonna be around forever.
Gigi Gorgeous
A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something.
Nick Woodman
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
Gary Ryan Blair
I realized so much of my life hasn’t been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of documenting my experiences as a way to memorialize them.
Thomas Newman
When I’m documenting, for example, a story on women in Afghanistan, I will do a huge amount of research and a lot of time on the ground just getting to know the women before I even start shooting.
Lynsey Addario
The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it’s constructive, but I’m now at a crossroads. I’ve accumulated a lot of followers, and it’s great, but I’m also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much.
Toyin Odutola
Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.
Robin Coste Lewis
Sometimes good stories are created while documenting dreams.
Ruskin Bond
I’m one of those parents who are quite careful about documenting their children’s upbringing. I really try to actively observe. I write down the little things that happen.
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
I’m never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.
Aretha Franklin
There’s a whole load of stuff in life that is worth documenting. You see it every day but don’t even notice.
Jan Chipchase
The photographers I worked alongside loved the news cycle and the hustle and getting that front page of the newspaper. But I wanted to be out in the field in conflict areas, documenting real life rather than political theater.
Daniel Berehulak
I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, ‘Does this make any sense to you?’
Moby
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.
Evgeny Morozov
I’m uncomfortable with selfies and status updates documenting mundane pieces of my life, which I don’t think should be of interest to anyone else.
Hozier
I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past.
Geoffrey Ward
I am one of many people documenting damage and looting at ancient sites from space – it is such a crucial tool.
Sarah Parcak
Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality… I’m South American – we celebrate life.
Mario Testino
I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I’m documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.
Gerard Malanga
We’re living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.
Ron Fournier
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens’ rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation’s history.
Allen Weinstein