Post by: David on June 30, 2003, 02:51:34 PM
I have a client with no pictures and VERY LITTLE to say about themselves.
To justify the copy I have written, I need an "attribution" to:-
QUOTE
A picture is worth a thousand words
I've Googled for the last half-hour without success; so, CAN ANY ONE PLEASE HELP ME?
I need to complete the presentation by 10 am GMT (Tuesday).
Aaaaaaarrrgh (how do you spell that?)
Regards
David L.
Post by: Thomas S. England on June 30, 2003, 03:05:42 PM
Quoting: Meaning
A picture tells a story as well as a large amount of descriptive text.
Origin
The original quotation is 'One picture is worth ten thousand words', Frederick R. Barnard in Printer's Ink, 8 Dec 1921 retelling a Chinese proverb.
further discussions on that forum add:
it is said to be a Chinese proverb (whether made up by Kung Fu Tze, Confucius, or just a folk saying). But I have read that the original is better translated from Chinese in this way: "One showing is better than one hundred sayings." And I suppose a "showing" could be either a picture or diagram, on the one hand, or perhaps in in-person showing or demonstration. In any case, if we consider that, in English, a "saying" may typically involve ten words, then we can see where the "thousand words" bit was substituted for the direct translation.
PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, A -- One reference says “a picture is worth a thousand words” is “…a Chinese proverb long ago. The Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote (in ‘Fathers and Sons’ in 1862): ‘A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound.’” From "The Dictionary of Cliches" by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985).
Post by: David on June 30, 2003, 03:14:46 PM
I can now complete my presentation with the additional "ten".
My VERY Best Wishes
David L.
Post by: Gregg on July 01, 2003, 07:52:00 AM
Post by: Maid Marian on July 05, 2003, 02:10:59 PM
that quote up at the library.........We're blessed to have the whole
world at our fingertips......Not So?.....Thanks, M.M
Hey Gregg.....Today's application of the "saying" is a near necessity...in proving damage to USPS, UPS, FedEx...and.. various Shippers......
That fabled ".....picture" does... the trick in jig time, with
little discussion......unless they want more of your wonderful
photographs.......... Maid Marian
Post by: Thomas S. England on July 05, 2003, 10:56:56 PM
Once they get over the initial shock, and assuming that nobody got killed, the items they miss the most are family photos. No way to replace them.
That's why I suggest to everybody that you round up your photos & take them to any camera store. Have a CD made from them and store that with a friend.
It costs very little and CDs can be made from prints, negs, slides.
Someday you may thank me.
I once worked a story involving parents of murdered children. All they had left were the photos made before their loss. Again, I told them all to have CDs made so the photos won't get lost forever.
Saying that such photos are worth 1,000 words doesn't even come close.