George Lois Quotes

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.

George Lois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 26, 1931

Topics

ArtChallengePeopleMindSearch

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person. I actually believe there's one way of writing.

John Ralston Saul

GreatPeopleMindWritingBelieve

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

Lisa Marie Presley

CageUpKickLikeRattleTendency

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Joseph Monninger

FlySwimJetMuchTiltDoes

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.

Diana Rigg

CareerReadyNowSayDifficultOut

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

Douglas Alexander

LovingEveryoneConceitCultural

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

Chris Christie

TruthPoliticsThinkLovedNewKnow

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

Aristide Briand

SearchConnectionCooperationMust

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

GreatImaginationWantNarrative

When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn't it be really depressing if you're trying to be bohemian and instead they see you as Rush Limbaugh?

Sheena Iyengar

HomePeopleSayingTryingYouWant

I have these beautiful children and this extraordinary family, and to think in any way shape or form that that's wrong or that there's shame in that or that there's something to hide actually turns my stomach.

Sean Maher

FamilyBeautifulChildrenThinkHide

I think if you're not scared, you're not doing your job right.

Scotty Lago

JobThinkDoingYouRightScared

Jolie's exotic mixture of brains and glamour makes her the one reliable international star, and one of the few of either gender to make people in every country pay to see her.

Richard Corliss

PeopleGenderCountryGlamourSee

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