9 Quotes & Sayings By Benjamin Wood

Benjamin Wood is a best-selling author, creativity strategist, and award-winning keynote speaker. He's been featured on The Today Show, Anderson Cooper 360°, the Charlie Rose Show, ABC News, CBS Sunday Morning, and numerous online and print publications. His work has been described as being part of a movement to "rewrite the rules of marketing for a new era."

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My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors and so forth--hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control. Benjamin Wood
Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.
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Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration. Benjamin Wood
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Oscar was raised to believe that if he stayed in his room reading about made up worlds it meant he didn't appreciate the life he had, the possessions his parents had worked hard for, like the TV and the video and the newly turfed back garden. Benjamin Wood
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Actually, I think it's the opposite. We know each other so well there isn't anything left to say. Sometimes it's nice just sitting here with you all, thinking. It's only best friends who can be comfortable with silence, wouldn't you say? Benjamin Wood
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If you construct a room in paint, you haunt it. Your life rests in every stroke. So paint only the rooms that you can bear to occupy forever. Or paint the stars instead. Benjamin Wood
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If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but keep missing -- fine. At least you had the guts to aim. There's honour in failing that way. But there's nothing honourable about settling for mediocrity. Benjamin Wood
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The way we envision the stars is by imagining they're attached to a giant invisible sphere surrounding the earth. It is a total fiction, really - just a construction we came up with to help us get our heads around the complexity of it all. . The ecliptic, put simply is the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. But since we all live here on earth, we observe the sun to be moving along this plane instead. Why? Because what would be the point of looking at things from the perspective of the sun? That's no use to anyone. . Ergo, it's an imaginary circle, as it's only a part of our human construction of the cosmos. Benjamin Wood
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Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you’ve got is a empty fist and a lot of regret. Benjamin Wood