“One of the best advertising people ever was Carl Ally. He said the true creative person wants to be a know-it-all. They want to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, modern manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and lean hog futures. Because they never know when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six years down the road, but they know it will happen.”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
“You can have what you want, or you can have your reasons for not having it.’
Jack Brabham chose not to have his reasons.
He did it all by being unreasonable.”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
Jack Brabham chose not to have his reasons.
He did it all by being unreasonable.”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
“No wonder men had more power. They had more power because they didn’t ask anyone else’s permission. They just went ahead and did what they wanted. And they weren’t as scared of being wrong as the women were. For them, getting the result was more important than being right.”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
“Nothing can harm a man so much as his own thoughts untamed.”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
“Orson Welles summed it up best in The Third Man. ‘In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
― One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking
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