You must find the ideas that have some promise in them. . . It is not enough to just have ideas.
And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.
Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in. . . Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.
A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.
An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.
Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.
Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.
There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
Procrastinatio n and indulgence are nothing more than creditors who charge us interest.