“Cause when it’s sink or swim
You got to think to win”– Ice Cube
Tag / quotes
Dali on mistakes
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalise them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.” – Salvador Dali.
Some of the best curves in life are learning curves 🙂
For a moment everything was clear…
“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don’t we all secretly know this? It’s a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.” – S. King
Life is a game
– J.D Salinger, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’.
Wayne’s World
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
What…so…customers are real people?
“Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.”
– Jonah Sachs
Jobs the Innovator
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
– Steve Jobs
Picasso on ambition
“My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
– Pablo Picasso.
How’s that for inspiration at a young age?
A map for your feelings…
“I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.”
– Bruce Springsteen
Apologies for the lack of a post yesterday – life, as it does, got in the way.
P.S. The album photo I included was one of my favourite ever albums as a kid. When I first got a CD walkman I fished it out of my dad’s CD collection and almost played it to death!
More Ogilvy on advertising…
“A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.”
– David Ogilvy
A nice, succinct nugget of wisdom there.
(image credit: magic designs)
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