Thought for the Week Archive 2

w/c 6th Jan 2014
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

David McClure Brinkley - American Journalist, NBC/ABC Newscaster  for over 50 years (July 10, 1920 - June 11, 2003)




w/c 13th Jan 2014
"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

Pliny the Elder ( Gaius Plinius Secundus) -  Roman author,naturalist and philosopher  (23AD - August 25 79AD)




w/c 20th Jan 2014
"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."

Jimi Hendrix - Guitarist, Musician, Sage (Nov 27 1942 - Sept 18 1970)




w/c 27th Jan 2014
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

Daniel Patrick Moynihan  - American Politician (March 16 1927 -  March 26 2003)




w/c  3rd Feb 2014
"Much learning does not teach understanding."

Heraclitus - Greek Philosopher (544 BC - 483 BC)




w/c 10th Feb 2014
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

Leonardo da Vinci - Italian Renaissance Artist (April 15 1452 - May 2 1519)




w/c 24th Feb 2014
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

Milton Berle -  American Comedian (July 12 1908  - March 27 2002)




w/c 3rd March 2014
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

Amelia Earhart - American Pioneering  Aviator and first female to fly solo across the Atlantic
(July 24 1898 -  July 2 1937 )




w/c 10th March 2014
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

Ernest Hemingway - American Novelist and Adventurer (July 21 1899 - July 2 1961)




w/c 17th March 2014
"We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers."

Kurt Cobain - Musician (February 20 1967 - April 5 1994)



w/c 31st March 2014
"Big results require big ambitions."

Heraclitus - Greek Philosopher  (544 BC - 483 BC)




w/c 7th April 2014
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

Albert Einstein - Theoretical Physicist  (March 14 1879 - April 18 1955)




w/c 14th April 2014
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."

Will Rogers -  Actor  (November 4 1879 -  August 15 1935)



w/c 21st April 2014
"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it."

Olin Miller - American Author (1918 - 2002)




w/c 28th April 2014
"Ability is nothing without opportunity."

Napoleon Bonaparte - French military and political leader (August 15 1769 - May 5 1821)




w/c 5th May 2014
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

Steve Jobs - Visionary, inventor and co-founder of Apple Inc -  (February 24 1955 - October 5 2011)




w/c 12th May 2014
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

Albert Einstein - Theoretical Physicist (March 14 1879 - April 18 1955)




w/c 19th May 2014
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius - Chinese Philosopher (551 BC- 479BC)




w/c 26th May 2014
"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else.
The trick is the doing something else."

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci - Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician,
mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
(April 15 1452 -  May 2 1519)




w/c 2nd June 2014
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Napoleon Bonaparte
French military and political leader (August 15 1769 - May 5 1821)




w/c 9th June 2014
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

Winston Churchill
English Statesman and Wartime Leader (November 30 1874 -  January 24 1965)




w/c 16th June 2014
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."

Bruce Lee -  Film actor, martial arts instructor and the founder of Jeet Kune Do
(November 27 1940 -  July 20 1973)




w/c 23rd June 2014
"I used to go missing a lot...
Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World..."

George Best - Northern IrishProfessional Footballer - Manchester United and Northern Ireland
(May 22 1946 - November 25 2005)




w/c 30th June 2014
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) - French Writer, historian and philosopher
(November 21 1694 - May 30 1778)



w/c 7th July 2016
"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still
speak the most universally understood language."

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney - American Animator, Cartoonist, Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Philanthropist and Voice Actor.
(December 5 1901 - December 15 1966)



w/c 14th July 2014
I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those... moments... will be lost in time, like... tears... in... rain. Time... to die...

Roy Batty A.K.A. Rutger Hauer - NEXUS-6 Replicant  - Bladerunner 1982




w/c 21st July 2014
"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

Will Rogers -  Actor  (November 4 1879 -  August 15 1935)




w/c 28th July 2014
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs".

Ansel Adams - American Photographer (February 20 1902 - April 22 1984)




w/c 4th Aug 2014
"When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films."

Quentin Tarantino - American Film Director (March 27 1963)




w/c 11th Aug 2014
"You can’t do anything until you know everything".

Ed McCabe - American Copywriter, founder of Scali, McCabe, Sloves  (Born Chicago, Illinois in 1938.)





w/c18th Aug 2014
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

Niccolo Machiavelli - : Italian  historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer (May 3 1469 - June 21 1527)




w/c 25th Aug 2014
"I don't know the rules of grammar...
If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language,
the language they use every day, the language in which they think."

David Mackenzie Ogilvy, CBE, advertising executive and founder of O&M Advertsing. Widely hailed as "The Father of Advertising.

(June 23 1911 -  July 21 1999)




w/c 1st Sept 2014
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

Arthur Ashe - American Tennis Player
Only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open

(July 10 1943 - February 6 1993)




w/c 8th Sept 2014
"It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges.
Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you."

Mike Davidson - Head of Design at Twitter




w/c 15th Sept 2014
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."

Peter Ferdinand Drucker - Austrian- born American management consultant, educator, and author,
whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation.

(November 19 1909 - November 11 2005)





w/c 22nd Sept 2014
"Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard."

David Scott "Dave" Mustaine American musician and original lead guitarist for Metallica
(September 13 1961 - )




w/c 29th Sept 2014
"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference
between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."

Niccolo Machiavelli - : Italian  historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer (May 3 1469 - June 21 1527)



w/c 6th Oct 2014
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take."

Wayne Gretzky - Canadian Ice Hockey player and coach (Born January 26 1961 Brantford, Canada)




w/c 13th Oct 2014
"Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone."

William Albert Allard - American documentary photographer (Born 1937 Minneapolis, Minnesota)





w/c 20th Oct 2014
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

Marlene Dietrich - German actress and singer
(December 27 1901 - May 6 1992)




w/c 27th Oct 2014
“In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.”

Peter Nivio Zarlenga -  American author and a businessman (1941 - )




w/c 3rd Nov 2014
" With silken line and delicate hook, I wander amongst the ripples and find… freedom."

Old Chinese proverb





w/c 10th Nov 2014
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool
than to open it and remove all doubt."

Mark Twain - US humorist, novelist, short story author & wit (1835 - 1910)





w/c 17th Nov 2014
“Don’t tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.”

Leo Burnett  (Pioneer American advertising Executive, Oct 21 1891- June 7 1971)





w/c 24th Nov 2014
" Never mistake motion for action."

Ernest Hemingway - American Novelist and Adventurer (July 21 1899 - July 2 1961)



w/c 1st Dec 2014
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

Ernest Hemingway - American Novelist and Adventurer (July 21 1899 - July 2 1961)




w/c 8th Dec 2014
"They take away our freedom, in the name of liberty
Why don't they all just clear off, why won't they let us be
They make us feel indebted, for saving us from hell
And then they put us through it
It's time the bastards fell"

Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers  (Jake Burns and Gordon Ogilvie 1979)




w/c 15th Dec 2014
"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

Mae West  - American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol
(August 17 1893 -  November 22 1980)




w/c 22nd Dec 2014
"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."

Erma Bombeck - Humorist and columnist
(February 21 1927 - April 22 1996)




w/c 29th Dec 2014
"Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..." 

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Victorian Poet Laureate
(August 6 1809 - October 6 1892)

 
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