The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.
Leo Bogart

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.
Johnnetta Betsch Cole

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.
Henry A. Wallace

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
Warren Farrell

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Albert Camus

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
Robert Trout

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
Robert Trout

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren

The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?
Dwight Schultz

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Irwin Edman

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
William Devane

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Dennis Potter

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.
Terri Windling

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
Edward Zwick

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
Hannes Alfven

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
Jessica Lange

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
W. Averell Harriman

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfven

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
Alfred Rosenberg