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“Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.”
Leo Burnett
“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“The minute a thing is long and complicated it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept but they are understood.”
Will Rogers
“The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.”
James Agee
“When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.”
Joni Mitchell
“I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed”
Robert Frost
“When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.”
Herbert Spencer
“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
W. H. Auden
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood”
Henry Miller
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
Francis Bacon Sr.