George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
arts blow certainly courage graphics people work zero
In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
great trying
If you're working, and you're not trying to be great, give up.
people work
If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.
life power truth
I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares?
destroyed mtv
I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.
brightest work
I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know.
design
I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.
drew time
From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.
connects cover great truly
A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.
advertising bad bill bob certainly fart guys led talking three
I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Advertising sucks. Guys like me and Bob Gage and certainly Bill Bernbach and two or three other guys, we exemplified and led the creative revolution.
When you create advertising, always start with the words.
stunning taught
What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.
computer everybody played thinks
The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.
benefit great
Great advertising, in and of itself, becomes a benefit of the product.