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How to Get Ideas, 2nd Edition
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How to Get Ideas, 2nd Edition

by Jack Foster, Larry Corby
June 2007
Beginner
214 pages
3h 2m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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6.Get More Inputs

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Ethel Watts Mumford

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

Over the years I worked with hundreds of creative people in advertising agencies. These were people who got ideas for a living. On demand. Every day.

They came in all shapes and sizes and colors and signs and personalities. One had a doctorate in anthropology, one never got past third grade. They came from close families and from broken homes, from penthouses and from ghettos. I worked with gays and straights, with extroverts and introverts, with flashers, ...

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