"You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday."

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Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

John Wanamaker

#Motivational Quotes #Yesterday Quotes #Wave Quotes

“Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.”
“I worked in fashion forecasting and I think that helps in being an editor because I love to know what's next, and I like to predict. I like to predict the trends going into the shows and normally I've organized all of our stories before we go. Fashion is my second language.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.”
“I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.”
“[On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or you publish right alongside of him - and have much more fun - and much more expense.”
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
“I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.”

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