w/c 5th Jan 2015
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."
Muhammad Ali - First and OnlyThree Times World Heavyweight Boxing Champion (1942 - )
w/c 12th Jan 2015
"The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become."
May Sarton (pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton) - American poet, novelist and memoirist.
(May 3 1912 – July 16 1995)
w/c 19th Jan 2015
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
Bruce Feirstein - American screenwriter and humorist (Born 1956)
w/c 26th Jan 2015
"Good words are worth much, and cost little."
George Herbert - British Poet and Orator (April 3 1593 - March 1 1633)
w/c 16th Feb 2015
"It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport."
Fridtjof Nansen - Norwegian Explorer (October 10, 1861 - May 13, 1930)
w/c 23rd Feb 2015
"You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful.
You just need a framework and a dream."
Michael Saul Dell - American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, author and founder and CEO of Dell Inc. (February 23 1965)
w/c 2nd March 2015
"Wit is educated insolence."
Aristotle - Greek philosopher and scientist born in the Macedonian city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece.
(384 BC - 322 BC)
w/c 9th March 2015
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."
Napoleon Bonaparte
French military and political leader - (August 15 1769 - May 5 1821)
w/c 16th March 2015
"People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content
when it's surfaced through friends and people they know and trust."
Malorie Lucich, Facebook
w/c 23rd March 2015
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you,
send him to the cemetery."
Malcolm X - Minister and a human rights activist.
(Born May 19 1925 North Omaha, Nebraska - Died February 21 1965 New York)
w/c 30th Mar 2015
"If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right."
Sanford I. Weill - Banker, financier and philanthropist.
(March 16 1933 - )
w/c 6th April 2015
"Great companies are built on great products."
Elon Musk - South African-born, Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor.
CEO and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, CTO of SpaceX and chairman of SolarCity.
(June 28, 1971)
w/c 13th April 2015
"In communications, familiarity breeds apathy."
William Bernbach - Advertising legend and one of the three founders of DDB in 1949
(August 13, 1911 - October 2, 1982)
w/c 20th April 2015
"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."
Epictetus - Greek Stoic philosopher.
(55AD - 135AD)
w/c 27th April 2015
"A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer."
Karl Kraus - Austrian writer, journalist, satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet.
(April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936)
w/c 4th May 2015
"Under every stone lurks a politician."
Aristophanes - Ancient Greek Poet and Playwright (c.446B.C. - c.386B.C.)
w/c 11th May 2015
" We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
Aesop - Ancient Greek Fabulist credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
(c.620B.C. - 564 B.C.)
w/c 18th May 2015
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
Benjamin Franklin - Founding Father of United States and leading author, printer, political theorist,
politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
(1706 - 1790)
w/c 25th May 2015
"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."
Richard Harding Davis - journalist, writer of fiction and war correspondent who covered the
Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War.
(April 18 1864 - April 11 1916)
w/c 1st June 2015
"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."
Isaac Asimov - American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction.
(January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992)
w/c 8th June 2015
"Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such."
Steve "Woz" Wozniak - American inventor, electronics engineer, and computer programmer
who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne
(August 11, 1950)
w/c 15th June 2015
"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
Lee Iacocca - American businessman responsible for engineering the Ford Mustang and
the revival of the Chrysler Corporation in the 1980s.
(October 15, 1924 - )
w/c 22nd June 2015
"The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron."
Phyllis Diller - American Comedienne (July 17th 1917 - August 20th 2012)
w/c 29th June 2015
"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."
David M. Ogilvy - Advertising Executive widely regarded as the 'Father of Advertising'
(June 23, 1911 - July 21, 1999)
w/c 6th July 2015
"The older I get, the better I used to be."
John Patrick McEnroe - Three Times Wimbledon Champion (February 16, 1959 - )
w/c 13th July 2015
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
Bertrand Russell - British Philosopher (May 18 1872- February 2 1970)
w/c 20th July 2015
"Advertising is the very essence of democracy."
Anton Chekhov - Russian Dramatist (January 29, 1860 - July 14, 1904)
w/c 27th July 2015
"I write what I write."
Umberto Eco - Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
(January 5 1932 - )
w/c 3rd Aug 2015
"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
F. Scott Fitzgerald - American author widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
(September 24 1896 - December 21 1940)
w/c 10th Aug 2015
"Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower."
Bruce Feirstein - American screenwriter and humorist (Born 1956)
w/c 17th Aug 2015
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur."
Paul Neal "Red" Adair - Renowned American oil well firefighter (June 18 1915 - August 7 2004)
w/c 24th Aug 2015
"Who put the "bomp" in the bomp-shooby-dooby-bomp?
Who put the "ram" in the rama-lama-ding-dong?"
Charles William 'Chuck' Prophet - American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. (June 28 1963)
w/c 31st Aug 2015
"To have a great idea, have a lot of them."
Thomas Alva Edison - American inventor who developed many devices including the phonograph,
the motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb.
(February 11, 1847- October 18, 1931)
w/c 7th Sept 2015
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein - Theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.
(March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955)
w/c 21st Sept 2015
"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."
Elbert Green Hubbard - American writer, publisher, artist, philosopher and traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company.
(June 19, 1856 - May 7, 1915)
w/c 28th Sept 2015
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
Pablo Picasso - Spanish Cubist painter; father of modern art
(1881 - 1973)
w/c 5th Oct 2015
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS FLS - English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog".
(May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895)
w/c 12th Oct 2015
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
William Bernbach - Advertising Legend and Founder of DDB
(August 13, 1911 - October 2, 1982)
w/c 19th Oct 2015
"If you never change your mind, why have one?"
Edward de Bono - Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and consultant. Father of lateral thinking.
(May 19, 1933 - )
w/c 2nd Nov 2015
"Negativity is the enemy of creativity."
David Lynch - American director, screenwriter, visual artist, musician, actor, and author.
(January 20, 1946 - )
9th Nov 2015
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,
awesomely simple, that's creativity."
Charles Mingus - American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader.
(April 22 1922 - January 5 1979)
w/c 16th Nov 2015
"The ear is the avenue to the heart."
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) - French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
(November 21 1694 - May 30 1778)
w/c 23 Nov 2015
"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvellous."
Billy Don "Bill" Moyers - American journalist and political commentator.
(June 5, 1934)
w/c 30th Nov 2015
"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."
C. S. Lewis - British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist,
lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.
(29 Nov 1898 - 22 Nov 1963)
w/c 7th Dec 2015
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
Edward Gibbon - English historian, writer and Member of Parliament.
Author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794)
w/c 14th Dec 2015
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."
George Carlin - American Comedian
(May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008)
w/c 21st Dec 2015
"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
Francis Bacon - English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author.
(January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626)
w/c 28th Dec 2015
"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
Percy Bysshe Shelley - English Romantic poet
(August 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822)
