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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#being #great #mistake #point #point of view

There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.' ↗

— Leo Burnett

#only #sell #smart #soft #stupid

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#having #ideas #making #making mistakes #mistakes

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#different times #god #i #life #met

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author. ↗

— Edward Burns

#been #business #i #longer #lot

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. ↗

— David D. Burns

#bad #create #fool #misery #moods

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together. ↗

— Edward Burns

#any #competitive #deniro #hoffman #how

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#anything #generation #often #parents #talk

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. ↗

— Robert Burton

#make #mayors #officers #scholars #year

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu... ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#coffee #travel #beauty