"Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales."

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Source : Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.29, Routledge

Michael Schudson

#May Quotes #Advertising Quotes

“HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter garb. His head bears a wreath of holly and he often carries a staff that is typically a holly branch. Some Santa Claus figures are actually Holly King figures.”
“Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.”

Source : Matthew Fox (1999). “A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“You have to look at fashion from the perspective of high end editors and publications. Read all the magazines--commercial and underground--and your voice will evolve from what you see there.”
“Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.”
“Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.”
“You have to be compelled to write. If youâ€™re not, nothing else that you do matters.”
“Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.”
“Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.”

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