"If men had more up top we'd need less up front"

“Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.”

Source : "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2009.

“In 1938, I. G. Farben sent a letter to (a major drug firm), one of its American subsidiaries, (that)..all advertising contracts must contain '...a legal clause whereby the contract is immediately cancelled if overnight the attitude of the paper toward Germany should be changed.”

“If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.”

“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.”

“In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.”

“Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.”

“If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind.”

Source : Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.50, John Wiley & Sons

“In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.”