Hegarty Quotes

#1. My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

Cindy Gallop

#2. We are publishers of content and consumers of content at the same time. (D. Abbot, J.Hegarty)

Gordon Torr

#3. Always remember: a brand is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world; a corner of someone's mind.

John Hegarty

#4. Gene, on the desire to be Finny: I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

John Knowles

#5. We haven't come this far to be ordinary.

John Hegarty

#6. Lord Jesus, help me to give my life, and live my life, for you. Mitch

Terence Hegarty

#7. Death is buried there into death
Hunger strikes on its own last breath
No spine to shiver, no heart talks
At life's craving poverty mocks

From the poem 'Exhumation

Munia Khan

#8. You cannot create great work unless a little bit of you goes into it, be it your heart, your soul or your beliefs.

John Hegarty

#9. I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.

Antony Hegarty

#10. Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

Richard Branson

#11. You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

Anthony Anderson

#12. Finn saw his grandfather look up, push himself to his feet and watch.

Shane Hegarty

#13. Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.

Antony Hegarty

#14. Life had once been clear-cut, black and white, but now, the colors had starting to bleed together into an ugly gray. That gray seemed to follow me everywhere. I just had to remember to keep finding the silver lining.

Cameo Renae

#15. I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.

Antony Hegarty

#16. There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.

Antony Hegarty

#17. Never expect anything without being prepared to give.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Do interesting things and interesting things will happen to you.

John Hegarty

#19. You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere.

Antony Hegarty

#20. I went to New York to be where the beautiful people were and it didn't disappoint me. It's so open. It's a great platform to do your own thing or start new things. When I got there, I started living for the first time.

Antony Hegarty

#21. Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.

Antony Hegarty

#22. There was no one to comfort the children, no one to embrace them, no one to love them. Care and control were what the dormitories were all about, not love and affection.

Ruth Hegarty

#23. We're all creative, it's just some of us earn our living by being so.

John Hegarty

#24. Winning is not everything it is the only thing

Vince Lombardi

#25. Better to be known for something than be forgotten for nothing.

John Hegarty

#26. I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.

Antony Hegarty

#27. What the heart feels today, the head will know tomorrow.

John Hegarty

#28. My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10 years later. It's all just about pushing around words and melodies, for me. The material is kind of shape-shifting.

Antony Hegarty

#29. The function of advertising is simply to promote and sustain competitive advantage for brands.

John Hegarty

#30. Obsessing about one medium versus another is a waste of energy - it is the cultivation and management of ideas, and the people who generate them, that is the crucial factor.

John Hegarty

#31. I knew when I first saw you that you were the woman I would want for all my life.

Philippa Gregory

#32. In other words: don't hide your differences, but shout about them. Be proud of them.

John Hegarty

#33. You're only as good as your next idea. And if you can't agree on that, then it's time to walk.

John Hegarty

#34. The first lesson of branding: memorability. It's very difficult buying something you can't remember.

John Hegarty

#35. I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.

Antony Hegarty

#36. I'm going to fall on my face if I have to run next to you looking like that." "I don't look any different than most guys on the beach," he tried to persuade me. "It's you," I stressed. "Any other guy could look exactly like that shirtless,s but it's you shirtless that makes my brain go all stupid.

Rebecca Donovan

#37. Apparently women are phenomenal creature, but to be contented with ones own beauty is a risk only few can take.

Lawrence Okafor

#38. Lord St Simon: 'I presume your usual clients do not belong to the same class?'
Sherlock Holmes: 'No, indeed. My last client was a king.

Arthur Hall

#39. Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

Antony Hegarty