Major Influences in my Life
People I admire and have influenced me
Visual Artists:
- Helmut Newton, Photographer
- Herb Ritts, Photographer
- Andy Warhol, American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker
- Mikael Kors, Fashion Designer – It would be an honor to shoot Mr. Kors or his line one day!
- Hugh Hefner, I have friends who work for Playboy. They have sat across from Hef and conversed, and I’ve heard NOHTING but good things about the man! A genuine man who has given the “Visual Gift” of beauty sense 1953! My next step in camera equipment is geared with the intent of submitting and being published in Playboy!
Spiritual Contributions:
- Gandhi
- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi , ( Nirmala Devi ) — ( Spent time with Gandhi as a child during his fasting ) — Sahaja Yoga
- Abraham-Hicks
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer , Living The Wisdom Of The Tao
Financial & Personal Empowerment:
- Lao Tsu – Tao Te Ching
- Robert T. Kiyosaki — Financial Wisdom, Assets vs Liabilities!
- Bruce Lee – Jeet Kun Do ( JKD ) — A hybrid fighting system and life philosophy founded by Bruce Lee in 1967
- Napoleon Hill — “Think and Grow Rich” – The science of achievement!
- Tony Robbins
- Viktor Frankl
- Andrew Carnegie
- W. Clement Stone
- Martin Luther King, Jr
Inspirations:
- Steven Hawking; Dragging himself up the stairs of his home DAILY for physical therapy!
- Jean-Dominique Bauby, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death” — Literally blinked his book into existence over a span of a year with ONE EYE!!!! Now that is will power!
- Tim Gunn, for this ability to communicate and always having EVERYONES best interests in mind. He seems like a KIND SOUL! Would be an honor to meet and/or shoot him one day
- Dr. Jennifer Arnold, Pediatrician and Star of the Hit Reality Show “Little Couple” –I admire her for not letting what most would conceive as a handicap dissuade her from following a career path in medicine! As an infant my pediatrician recognized what would have been a fatal tumor of the eye and saved my life! I totally respect the fact that she CHOOSE not to give in or give up!
GLP
