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"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
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"Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz."She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?""Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters."
"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."
"There is nothing wrong with wanting more. There is no reason why you should n't get everything you want from life."
"It was strange to have those papers signed. Like any big project or crisis that takes every waking and non - waking moment in your life, it was odd to have it concluded. A move, a college degree, a wedding - something long - strived - for is completed, whatever the outcome, and there is a huge space where it all once was. All that open time now, and a continuing nagging sense that there's something you need to be doing."
"Status: the perpetual carrot that entices us from the front and prods us in the back."
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
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"I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think."
"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."
"I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death."
"I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
"If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all."
"Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising."
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