Quotes About Memorability

When you think about the Knicks, you associate Patrick Ewing with the Knicks, you associate Walt Frazier with the Knicks. If I do all the right things and perform up to my capabilities, I hope you associate Larry Johnson with the Knicks someday, too.

If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

I was like, 'Prince, prince. Prince Ali. People know that from 'Aladdin.' I'm a big fan of Muhammad Ali. I can't be Muhammad Ali. I'm looking up royal - Mustafa. Mustafa's a royal name. Prince Mustafa, OK fine.' Prince Mustafa Ali came from that, and it's an easier name for people to remember, too: Prince Ali.

You can be a murderous tyrant and the world will remember you fondly but fuck one horse and you will be a horse fucker for all eternity.

When I wanted the CEO of Starbucks to keep me in mind for their board, I sent him a note rather than calling. I call it dripping: You don't want to be like a faucet full-on; you want to drip just enough that they don't forget about you.

I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didn't cause them any later embarrassment.

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

A superhero's catchphrase should be like a really memorable advertising slogan. It sticks in your head and you can't stop humming it. And let's face it, superheroes are just really selling themselves as products.

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

I joke about it being a millstone, but it never hurts to have a name that sticks out.

One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

But let's not confuse memorability with wisdom.

Familiarity and memorability are often at odds.

Even if it's a horrible venue - a bar that barely has a PA and no lighting - we're still there trying to get somebody to not forget us.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.

Beauty is not generic. Quite often, the thing that makes you memorable is the thing that makes you different.

The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.

You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.