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Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consisten...
SIMON MAINWARING
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for...
HERBERT SIMON
Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
JOHN SIMON
The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. ...
SIMON MAINWARING
There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consum...
SIMON MAINWARING
The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting t...
SIMON MAINWARING
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put t...
PAUL SIMON
There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
PAUL SIMON
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not...
PAUL SIMON
I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmo...
PAUL SIMON
I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
PAUL SIMON
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
PAUL SIMON
I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
PAUL SIMON
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the ...
PAUL SIMON
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
PAUL SIMON
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
PAUL SIMON
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
PAUL SIMON
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. ...
PAUL SIMON
We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.
PAUL SIMON
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only th...
PAUL SIMON
Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.
PAUL SIMON
I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentime...
PAUL SIMON
Who am I to blow against the wind?
PAUL SIMON
I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm g...
PAUL SIMON
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, an...
PAUL SIMON
Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
PAUL SIMON
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
PAUL SIMON
Listen to the sound of silence.
PAUL SIMON
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the s...
PAUL SIMON
I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It&...
PAUL SIMON
Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.
SIMON SINEK
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
SIMON NEWCOMB
A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingl...
SIMON KUZNETS
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
SIMON NEWCOMB
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
SIMON COWELL
My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
SIMON COWELL
When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables...
SIMON COWELL
I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL
My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'
SIMON COWELL