"To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or
very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes."
Antoine Rivarol
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"Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on
one's face."
James D. Finley
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"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms
the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."
E.M. Forster
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"Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours
without surgery."
Mark Amidon
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"A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech
reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance
the dullest beanbag of a heart."
Peggy Noonan
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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is
painting that is felt rather than seen."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem.
Most things are judged by their jackets."
Baltasar Gracian
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"The production of too many useful things results in too many
useless people."
Karl Marx
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"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on
fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Terry Pratchett
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"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre
admission and the babysitter were worth it."
Alfred Hitchcock
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"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to
listen."
Tommy Smothers
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"Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit
certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues.
The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my
pocket."
Henri Rabaud
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"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the
town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."
Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson
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"The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a
35mm camera."
W. Eugene Smith
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"The film industry is about saying ‘no' to people, and inherently
you cannot take ‘no' for an answer."
James Cameron
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"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired
by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
Franklin P. Adams
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"If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if
you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed."
Lily Tomlin
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"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a
refuge from almost all the miseries of life. "
W. Somerset Maugham
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"A house without books is like a room without windows."
Heinrich Mann
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"Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden
to ourselves."
Jeremy Collier
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"In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our
mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the
man who can't read them."
Mark Twain
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"There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's
a repair job to be done around the house."
Joe Ryan
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog
it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
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"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away
from it."
James Bryce
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"My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low
that I can start reading the newspapers."
Ronald Reagan
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"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest
is advertising."
Lord Northcliffe
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"To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film
that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To
understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge
that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper
itself."
V.S. Naipaul
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"Newspapers always excite curiousity. No one ever lays one down
without a feeling of disappointment."
Charles Lamb
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"The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing
leaves much to be desired."
Philip Kotler
"They used to say man's life was a closed book. So it is but it's
an open newspaper."
Finlay Peter Dunne
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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are, while your
reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden
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"There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in
learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't
being said."
Peter F. Drucker
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"A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other
way."
John Tudor
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"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the
information."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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"We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the
earth."
John Lubbock
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"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to
stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would
be an evil still."
John Stuart Mill
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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on
broken glass."
Anton Chekhov
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"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When
images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
Ansel Adams
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"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their
relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
Henry David Thoreau
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"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were
taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for
things themselves."
John Locke
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"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have
lost their balance."
James Joyce
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"The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to
write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves
overborne by the multitude of our assailants."
Samuel Johnson
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"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will
be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."
Martin Golding
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"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their
pictures on silence."
Leopold Stokowski
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"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
Joseph Joubert
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"Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to
us."
Julia Penelope
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"Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse
if you weren't."
Mignon McLaughlin
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"A brand is a living entity - and it is enriched or undermined
cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures."
Michael Eisner
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"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
Terry Pratchett
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"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my
works."
Oscar Wilde
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"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The
optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute."
Gil Stern
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"Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television,
but television's message has always been that the need for truth,
wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a
toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath."
Dave Barry
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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make
that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening
grammar that they use."
Mark Twain
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"I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there
watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in
the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm
for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as
possible."
Anderson Cooper
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"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the
uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and
enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult
intelligence."
Norman Podhoretz
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"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a
team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
Vince Lombardi
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"Technology is a way of organising the universe so that man
doesn't have to experience it."
Max Frisch
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"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees
results."
Albert Einstein
"Wooing the press is an exercise roughly
akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the
tiger always eats last."
Maureen Dowd
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"The medium is the message."
Marshall McLuhan
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"It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as
though one were inventing them."
Rupert Hart-Davis
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"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."
Doug Floyd
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"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance
but disappear when you get up close to them."
John Shirley
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"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what
you really need."
Vernon Howard
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"People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect
it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true."
Lewis H. Lapham
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"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a
pinch of creativity."
Bo Bennett
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"Brand value is very much like an onion. It has layers and a core.
The core is the user who will stick with you until the very end."
Edwin Artzt
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"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for
reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
Confucius
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"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else
use it, and get a new one every six months."
Clifford Stoll
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"There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a
precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you
ever thought possible."
A. Alfred Taubman
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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their
products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to
advertise them."
Will Rogers
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"Asked about the power of advertising in research surveys, most
agree that it works, but not on them."
Eric Clark
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"Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too
busy to do yesterday, but did anyway."
Mignon McLaughlin
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"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the
attitude of the prospect."
William Clement Stone
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"Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product."
Robert Stephens
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the
depiction of reality in the mass media."
Christopher Lasch
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"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe."
George Orwell
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"Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately it takes a lifetime
to master."
Philip Kotler
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"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the
lifeboats."
Voltaire
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"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our
appetites."
William Ruckelshaus
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"A brand is a set of differentiating promises that link a product
to its customers."
Stuart Agres
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"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into
your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building
filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and
creativity will instantly fill it."
Dee Hock
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"The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analysed until all
interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty."
Thomas Griffith
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"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you
get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the
office."
Robert Frost
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"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with
creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion,
creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and
vanity."
Dale Carnegie
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"In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't
danced on TV."
Erma Bombeck
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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But
without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the
most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of
teachers."
Charles W. Eliot
"Advertising isn't a science. It's
persuasion. And persuasion is an art."
Bill Bernbach
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"The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions."
Diane Ackerman
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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other
plans."
John Lennon
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"A house of brands is like a family, each needs a role and a
relationship to others."
Jeffrey Sinclair
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"So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free."
Jason Love
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"Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly
communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words
and pictures."
Jeffery Veen
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"Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those
things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda,
and philosophy."
Erik Adigard
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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."
Douglas Adams
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"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to
accomplish a particular purpose."
Charles Eames
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"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job,
wait until you hire an amateur."
Red Adair
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"A brand that captures your mind gains behavior. A brand that
captures your heart gains commitment."
Scott Talgo
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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau
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"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you
have one."
Stella Adler
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"Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and
foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the
remote control."
Donna Gephart
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"Your brand is created out of customer contact and the experience
your customers have of you."
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various
things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a
design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with
your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."
D. H. Lawrence
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"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is
often to ruin it."
Miguel de Cervantes
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"Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's
insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity
equals success, success equals happiness."
John Arbuthnot Fisher
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"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in
rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
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"Public relations specialists make flower arrangements of the
facts, placing them so that the wilted and less attractive petals
are hidden by sturdy blooms."
Alan Harrington
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"Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some
spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not
mean there cannot be fun in business."
Leo Burnett
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"Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread."
Jef I. Richards
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"The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the
publicity."
George Carlin
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"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they
don't have for something they don't need."
Will Rogers
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"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing
without work."
Emile Zola
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"The more you engage with customers, the clearer things become and
the easier it is to determine what you should be doing."
John Russell
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"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions
and arbitrary values."
Marshall McLuhan
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"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and
its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while
the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of
horror are still in the air."
Henry Anatole Grunwald
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"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to
separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is
printed."
Elbert Hubbard
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"Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family
to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them
to mine."
David Ogilvy
"Good communication is as stimulating as
black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the
mind."
Walter Landor
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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the
people."
William Butler Yeats
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"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short,
and the pen is very sharp."
Terry Pratchett
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything
that counts can be counted."
Albert Einstein
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"Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything
else is the Catskills."
Al Ries and Jack Trout
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"A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read
advertising."
James Collins
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"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with
all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."
Hal Borland
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"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better man."
Benjamin Franklin
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"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
Alexander Pope
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"Designers talk and think a lot like science fiction writers do,
except in a much less melodramatic and histrionic way."
Bruce Sterling
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"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism
by those who don't have it."
George Bernard Shaw
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"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising?
Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public;
ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of
the continent."
John Donne
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"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even
less."
General Eric Shinseki, retired COS, US Army.
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"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."
Harry S. Truman
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"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow..."
Lawrence Clark Powell
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for
it."
Henry David Thoreau
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"A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer."
Al Reis and Laura Reis
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"No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys."
Doug Horton
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"The best things in life aren't things."
Art Buchwald
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"Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well
as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more
interesting."
William Randolph Hearst
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"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of
indecision."
Maimonides
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"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
John W. Gardner
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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon
loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for
yourself."
Doris Lessing
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"Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I'm all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands
of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people
strive to improve their economic status."
Ralph S. Butler
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"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and
lets the future in."
Deepak Chopra
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
E.L. Doctorow
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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but
the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"The creative adult is the child who has survived."
Ursula K. le Guin
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"Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of
reason."
Richard C. Trench
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"The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so
angry they will write half your paper for you."
C.E.M. Joad
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"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every
generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
Paul Gauguin
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"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let
people know you are doing the right thing."
John D. Rockefeller
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"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Elbert Hubbard
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"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the
answers."
James Thurber
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"Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset,
because it is the rarest."
Jef I. Richards
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"Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats."
Northrop Frye
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"Nothing will work unless you do."
Maya Angelou
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"People think computers will keep them from making mistakes.
They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster."
Adam Osborne
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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
Henry Ford
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" If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is
work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. "
Albert Einstein
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"A friendship founded on business is better than a business
founded on friendship."
John D. Rockefeller
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"But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two
things: One you find your options so restricted that the only
course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of
freedom comes with the decision."
Steven Brust
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"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
Franklin P. Jones
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"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
Woody Allen
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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art."
Susan Sontag
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"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of
it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that
its real being consists in what is said in it."
Hans-Georg Gadamer, German Philosopher
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"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."
Charles Ives, Composer
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"Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or
how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write
well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done
(probably), so you must write better than they..."
Tim Cahill, Travel Writer
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"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the
hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of
the customer experience a little bit better."
Jeff Bezos
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again
to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
Henry Miller
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"Leadership is like the Abominable Snowman. You never see it, but
you know by the footprints that it's there."
Ann Richards - Former Governor, Texas
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"I didn't get into design to be an artist. To me, an artist
creates things to evoke emotion. Being a designer goes a step
further than that, not only trying to evoke emotion but trying to
make a reaction. It is very objective-driven, and that's what
makes it interesting."
Mike Davidson
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"It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance
on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will
remain obscure."
George H. Lewes
"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is
making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other
people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I
call it "creative observation." Creative viewing."
William S. Burroughs
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"The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're
constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and
manoeuvered."
Joey Skaggs
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"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not
understand."
Eric Hoffer
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"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives
good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good
admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down
with the other."
Francis Bacon
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"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation,
labour could become its own employer."
Leland Stanford
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"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
George S. Patton
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"The human body has two ears and one mouth. To be good at
persuading or selling, you must learn to use those natural devices
in proportion. Listen twice as much as you talk and you'll succeed
in persuading others nearly every time."
Tom Hopkins
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"There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the
product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do
is put you out of business faster."
Jerry Della Famina, 1971.
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"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."
Errol Flynn
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"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something.
Always have class, and be humble."
John Madden
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"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than
the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes
happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity
and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."
Albert Schweitzer
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"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.
Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind
energy into accomplishment and wealth."
Napoleon Hill
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"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a
winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and
confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."
Arthur Ashe
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"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words
and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age
in a day."
Jim Bishop
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with
talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge
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"Superficially, business is based on the principle of exchange. In
reality, if this exchange is to be sustained, it requires a
relationship of some sort to underpin it."
Judy van Dam
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"The future is keeping you out of the present time."
Van Morrison
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"Make the iron hot by striking it."
Oliver Cromwell
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Richard P. Feynman
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"Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear
in them, using not what they do, but what they are."
Robert Bresson
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"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes
and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one
remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's
perseverance."
Yoko Ono
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"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build
could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record
neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the
buildings were built."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"I think we're barraged with movies where it's not important that
the people are real people. They can be perfect bodies and do the
62 flips and catch knives and then talk in iambic pentameter for a
second before they throw it back."
Steve Zahn
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"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being
in and out of favour."
Robert Frost, The Black Cottage, 1914.
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"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home
in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the
convenience of the reader."
Kingman Brewster
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"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an
easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality
profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or
service."
Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era
- it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders
technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just
looking good."
Clement Mok
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"If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would
get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying
to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing
the Alps."
James Thurber
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"Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture."
Allen Ginsberg
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"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they
will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and,
above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
Joseph Pulitzer
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
Salvador Dali
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"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long
as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving
at a statement."
Jackson Pollock
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"Changing the way we measure things is vital. So is
decompartmentalising society - making sure that economics and
politics are not divorced from other crucial areas of life."
David Attenborough
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"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity,
heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humours."
George Santayana
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"More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce
individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily
miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of
the deadline and retain the flavour of their own minds in print."
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
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"There's an assumption that if someone writes in the first person
it's self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a
tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It's not a
tool to understand myself."
Michael Pollan
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"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
Mark Twain
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"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline
and find your liberty."
Frank Herbert
