Quotes from James Webb Young

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

An idea is nothing more or less than a new combination of old elements (Quoted from Vilfredo Pareto)

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories.

In learning any art the important things to learn are, first, Principles; and second, Method. This is true of the art of producing ideas.

Riding horseback along a country lane I saw wild roses in bloom, against an old stone wall. The expensive, improved varieties in my garden have lost something. Sophistication always does.

An idea, I thought, has some of that mysterious quality which romance lends to tales of the sudden appearance of islands in the South Seas.

In advertising an idea, results from a new combination of specific knowledge about. products and people, will general knowledge about life and events.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.