William Bernbach Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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The good ideas will survive.
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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
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Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.
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When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
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Fashion has to be about what is.
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My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.
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Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.
