"The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible."

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Source : "Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham - review" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2011.

Saul Bass

#Thinking Quotes #Limits Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.”
“Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.”
“You look after yourself. You believe in God. And if people want to drag you down, you fight that, and you keep on fighting.”

Source : "Now, about that passport..." by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2002.
“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “This Book Will Save Your Life”, p.29, Granta Books
“it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”
“Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.”
“Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.”
“I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.”

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