Accepteren En Quotes & Sayings

We are come for your good, for all your goods. — King George II

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.' — Leo Burnett

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily distracted by what is in front of their eyes. Slowly, over a great period of time, our ancestors overcame this basic animal weakness. By looking long enough at any object and refusing to be distracted - even for a few seconds - they could momentarily detach themselves from their immediate surroundings. In this way they could notice patterns, make generalizations, and think ahead. They had the mental distance to think and reflect, even on the smallest scale.
These early humans evolved the ability to detach and think as their primary advantage in the struggle to avoid predators and find food. It connected them to a reality other animals could not access. Thinking on this level was the single greatest turning point in all of evolution - the emergence of the conscious, reasoning mind. — Robert Greene

Oh yeah, that was the thing to do at that time. This was before the new wave of bebop started. — Martin Denny

Then the enchantment became more and more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended; it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Botvinnik was a killer in chess. — Yuri Averbakh