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In Praise Of:, Inspiration, Online No Comments
Klout is one of the worst ideas ever put online. Klout annoys me for the same reason that search engine optimization annoys me: It’s an enormous amount of effort designed to game an arbitrary and often-changing system. Imagine if all that time went into actually making interesting things, or caring about the people around you.
- Tom Scott, founder of Klouchbag.com
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And that’s what we should be doing.
Not worrying about changing the product.
The price, the quality, the size, the shape, the name, the distribution.
Not changing the facts.
But changing the direction they’re viewed from.
Bernbach, McCabe, Ally, Wells, Lois, Saatchi, and Webster knew that.
And Shakespeare knew that, 400 years ago.
He said “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”That’s our job.
Thinking.- Dave Trott, Control Context and You Control the Mind
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In all my years in the business, everyone has joked about the tempermental copywriter. But there’s a reason that the writers are so abrasive. Where the art professionals may get annoying requests for color changes and logo size increases, they essentially have a skill that is obviously beyond every account executive or marketing manager. An AE can ask for an art change, but most can never hope to go into Photoshop and makes those changes themselves.
But everyone can write. And thus is born the delusion of grandeur that makes everyone believe that because they can write, they are qualified as a writer.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
- Bob Knorpp, DeathByAdvertising.com
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And if I’m being brutally honest [copywriting]‘s not really writing. It’s more about taking some pre-digested copy points, realigning some verb noun agreements and sprucing it all up with a well-chosen adverb or adjective.
It’s not something a well-trained monkey couldn’t do. And if you’ve spent anytime inside an ad agency you know that metaphor has not been stretched.
- Rich Siegel, http://roundseventeen.blogspot.com/ (congrats on three years)
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A player whose stroke is affected by the simultaneous explosion of a bomb may play another ball from the same place. Penalty, one stroke.
- Richmond Golf Club in Surrey, England (1940)
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Because there’s nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that’s what’s most precious…
You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you’ve got to want it.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/man-at-his-best/q-and-a/ricky-gervais-interview-0212-2#ixzz1kyRHVsfZ
- Ricky Gervais, Esquire Magazine