w/c 4th Jan 2016
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
Edward de Bono - Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and consultant. Father of lateral thinking.
(May 19, 1933 - )
w/c 11th Jan 2016
"There is nothing new in art except talent."
Anton Chekhov - Russian Dramatist
(January 29, 1860 - July 14, 1904)
w/c 18th Jan 2016
"Trust, but verify."
Ronald Reagan - Holywood actor and US President
(Feb 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004)
w/c 25th Jan 2016
"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."
Mae West - American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol
(August 17, 1893 - November 22, 1980)
w/c 1st Feb 2016
"Cement doesn't give as much as snow."
Shaun White - American professional snowboarder and skateboarder.
Two-time Olympic gold medalist. Record X-Games gold medals winner.
(Sept 3, 1986 - )
w/c 8th Feb 2016
"The client knows what he wants. The agency knows what he needs.
The account man's job is to get the client to want what he needs."
Dave Trott - Advertising Copywriter and Creative Guru.
Co-founder of GGT, Chairman and ECD of The Gate, author, blogger and sage.
(1947 -)
w/c 15th Feb 2016
Thunderclap Newman - British one-hit wonder band formed by Pete Townshend of The Who and Kit Lambert
(December 1968 - January 1969)
w/c 22 Feb 2016
"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth."
Mike Tyson- American former professional boxer.Held the undisputed world heavyweight championship
and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF
(June 30, 1966 - Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York)
w/c 29 Feb 2016
"We're all creative, it's just some of us earn our living by being so."
Sir John Hegarty - Icon of modern advertising and a founder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
(May 20, 1944 - )
w/c 7 March 2016
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
Aldous Huxley - English Novelist and philosopher, author of Brave New World.
(July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963)
w/c 14th March 2016
"Never put a sock in a toaster."
Edward John "Eddie" Izzard - Stand-up comedian, actor, writer and ultra, ultra marathon runner.
February 7, 1962
w/c 21st March 2016
"Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude."
Ralph Marston - Writer and Blogger
(January 18 1955)
w/c 28th March 2016
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara - Argentinian Marxist revolutionary, physician, author,
guerrilla leader, diplomat, military theorist and 20th Century icon.
(June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967)
w/c 4th April 2016
"If you have six hours to chop down a tree, spend the first four sharpening the axe."
Abraham Lincoln - Sixteenth President of the United States
(February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865)
w/c 11th April 2016
"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience".
Guy Kawasaki - American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
One of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Mac in 1984.
(Aug 30 1954)
w/c 18th April 2016
"If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it."
Ray Bradbury - American Writer and author of Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles and
The Illustrated Man.
(August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012)
w/c 25th April 2016
"In the beginning God made the sea, But on the 7th day he made me"
Prince Rogers Nelson - singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist genius, performer extraordinaire.
(June 7, 1958 - April 21, 2016)
RIP His Purpleness.
w/c 2nd May 2016
"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter
Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best known for the formulation of the Peter Principle.
(September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990)
w/c 9th May 2016
"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."
Saadi Shirazi - Medieval Persian Poet and Writer
(Born: 1181, Shiraz, Iran - Died: December 9, 1291)
w/c 16th May 2016
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
Marcus Tullius Cicero - Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist
(Born: Jan 3 106BC - Died: Dec 7 43 BC)
w/c 23rd May 2016
"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate"
(trans."Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.")
William of Ockham - 14th century logician and Franciscan friar born 1285, Ockham Surrey, died 1347, Munich.
Occam's (or Ockham's) Razor: a principle observing that if you have two equally likely solutions to a problem,
choosing the simplest is likely to be the most accurate.
w/c 30th May 2016
"People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons."
Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar - American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.
(November 6, 1926 - November 28, 2012)
w/c 6th June 2016
"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning,thrown thunder in jail;
only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick."
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) aka The Greatest, The People's Champion,The Louisville Lip.
First and still the only three-time world heavyweight boxing champion in the golden age of the sport.
(January 17, 1942 - June 3, 2016) RIP. As-Salaam-Alaikum.
w/c 13th June 2016
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
Ronald Reagan - Holywood actor and US President
(Feb 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004)
w/c 20th June 2016
"Arrogance is only bad when you lose.
If you are winning and you are arrogant then it's self-belief."
Eddie Jones - Current England Rugby Union headcoach, sage, wit, bonzer bloke and honarary Pom.
(January 30, 1960)
w/c 27th June 2016
"The brief is supposed to be a springboard for great work. Not a straitjacket."
Dave Trott - Advertising Copywriter and Creative Guru.
Co-founder of GGT, Chairman and ECD of The Gate, author, blogger and sage.
(1947 -)
w/c 4th July 2016
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter - Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best for the formulation of the Peter Principle.
(September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990)
w/c 11th July 2016
"Being honest may not get you many friends, but it'll always get you the right ones."
John Lennon - Singer, songwriter and co-founder of the Beatles.
(Oct 9 1940 - Dec 8 1980)
w/c 18th July 2016
"Punctuality is the soul of business."
Thomas Chandler Haliburton - politician, judge and author.
(17 Dec 1796 - 27 Aug 1865)
w/c 25th July 2016
"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis - Wife of John F. Kennedy and First Lady from 1961 - 63.
(July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994)
w/c 1st Aug 2016
"Be aware of 'yes ' men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win."
Paul William 'Bear' Bryant - American football player and coach best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team.
(September 11, 1913 - January 26, 1983)
w/c 8th Aug 2016
"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them."
Arthur Schopenhauer - German philosopher best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation.
(February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860)
w/c 15th Aug 2016
"Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life."
Werner Herzog - German screenwriter, film director, author, actor and opera director.
(September 5 1942 - )
w/c 22nd Aug 2016
"My words are my bullets."
John Joseph Lydon - A.K.A. Johnny Rotten.
Songwriter, musician and lead singer of the Sex Pistols and PIL. The Godfather of British Punk.
(January 31 1956 - )
w/c 29th Aug 2016
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Boston, Mass. based physician, poet, professor, lecturer and author.
A member of the Fireside Poets and acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
(August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894)
w/c 5th Sept 2016
"You want to win more pitches? Then have a better showreel. And play it upfront."
Sir John Hegarty - icon of modern advertising and a founder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty. (May 20, 1944-)
w/c 12th Sept 2016
"Where ever smart people work, doors are unlocked."
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 19th Sept 2016
"One's character is one's fate."
Heraclitus - Greek Philosopher
(544 BC - 483 BC)
w/c 26th Sept 2016
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short;
but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni - Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance .
(March 6th 1475 -February 18th 1564)
w/c 3rd Oct 2016
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Joseph Rudyard Kipling - English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Best known works include The Jungle Book, Kim, If and The Man Who Would Be King.
(December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936).
w/c 10th Oct 2016
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (aka G.K.Chesterton) - English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator,
lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic.
(May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936)
w/c 17th Oct 2016
"The secret of getting things done is to act."
Dante Alighieri - Italian Poet and author.
(June 1, 1265, Florence, Italy - September 14, 1321, Ravenna, Italy)
w/c 24th Oct 2016
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."
George Herman Ruth Jr. (also known as Babe Ruth, The Great Bambino, the Sultan of Swat and The Big Bam)
was a Major League professional baseball player whose career in spanned 22 seasons from 1914 through 1935.
(February 6, 1895 - August 16, 1948)
w/c 31st Oct 2016
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."
Clarence Seward Darrow - American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
(April 18, 1857 - March 13, 1938)
w/c 7th Nov 2016
"Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America."
Billie Joe Armstrong - Green Day
w/c 14th Nov 2016
"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
Jean Giraudoux - French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright.
Considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.
(October 29, 1882- January 31, 1944)
w/c 21st Nov 2016)
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
Arthur Schopenhauer - German philosopher best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation
(February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860)
w/c 28th Nov 2016
"It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene."
Brian (Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle) Eno - English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist.
(May 15, 1948 - )
w/c 5th Dec 2016
"The sole purpose of business is service.
The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders."
Leo Burnett - American advertising executive and the founder of Leo Burnett Company.
Responsible for creating some of advertising's most well-known characters and campaigns of the 20th century including
Tony the Tiger, Charlie the Tuna and the Marlboro Man.
(October 21, 1891 – June 7, 1971)
w/c 12th Dec 2016
"The learning process continues until the day you die."
Kirk Douglas - 100 year old actor, producer, director and author.
Screen icon and one of the last survivors of Hollywood's Golden Age - 'I'm Spartacus'
(December 9, 1916 - )
w/c 19th Dec 2016
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."
Joseph Rudyard Kipling - English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Best known works include The Jungle Book, Kim, If and The Man Who Would Be King.
(December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936)
w/c 26th Dec 2016
"Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store."
Theodor Seuss Geisel a.k.a. Dr Seuss - Poet, Writer and Illustrator of Children's books
(March 2 1904- Sept 24 1991)
