Dan Wieden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We need to get to kids who have no idea what we do. We need to open the doors wide and let them in. There are many undiscovered voices out there - voices that, against all odds, can rise up and enrich this culture and perhaps change the very nature of the marketplace for the better.
-- Dan Wieden

#Business #Kids #Odds
Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkardsâ€¦ the rest of you should be sharpening your knives,
-- Dan Wieden

#Agency #Knives #Giants
I think the real risk comes in being willing to try to be authentic.
-- Dan Wieden

#Real #Thinking #Risk
You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.
-- Dan Wieden

#Mistake #Three #Made
Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The only friend who really helps you be creative.
-- Dan Wieden

#Creative #Want #Chaos
Creativity is basically subversive. . . .
-- Dan Wieden

#Creativity
Software will never replace the Koran.
-- Dan Wieden

#Software

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.
If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.
Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with Howieâ€™s waste. It bothered him that he was leaving evidence behind without some sort of oxygenated bleach, those blood splatters would still show up under Luminol. Of course, the odds of anyone deciding to spray down the morgue freezer and switch on an ultraviolet light were pretty minimal, so itâ€™s not like it was evidence that anyone would ever find or use. Still: Billy Dentâ€™s First Commandment was â€œThou shalt not leave evidence.

Dan Wieden famous quotes

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