#ant

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#contribute #direction #feeling #important #insofar

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#boss #client #creation #debilitating #good

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#advertising agency #agency #assembly #assembly line #cannot

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' ↗

— Leo Burnett

#consumers #hell #instead #product #say

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#get #got #i #kind #knew

In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#called #class #cut #down #especially

So many people wanted an adventure. It was really more about finding the cast that I wanted for 'Expedition Impossible,' so it had good diversity, and people could really say, 'Oh, there's the firefighters, there's the team of cops, there's the grandpa' - so that you can really relate with them. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#adventure #cast #cops #could #diversity

I want to write songs and play them for people - live. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#live #people #play #songs #them

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist. ↗

— Edward Burns

#become #certain #certain point #find #influence

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy. ↗

— Edward Burns

#am #big #big fan #comedy #different