George Lois Quotes
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The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.
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Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.
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Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything…
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Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
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Creativity can solve almost any problem,
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In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new…
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Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.…
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Working hard and doing doing great work is as imperative as breathing. Creating great work warms the heart and enriches the soul. Those of us…
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The accurate measure of a human being is what he or she actually gets done.
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I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick.
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You can be cautious or you can be creative (but there's no such thing as a cautious creative).
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Only mediocre ideas can be tested.
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A cautious creative is an oxymoron.
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The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!
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The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.
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Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.
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Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the…
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Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.
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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
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If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his…
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