Bill Bernbach
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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They're called boobs, Ed.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
How do I look ?
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
We're on a mission from God.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Vegas, baby.
Every artist was first an amateur.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
You had me at hello.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.