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"Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought"

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Williams frames creativity less as a rarefied artistic gift and more as a basic human operating system: we manufacture mental pictures for other people, then live inside the consequences. Coming from a businessman best known for marketing savvy, the line reads like an ethical memo disguised as inspiration. “Flinging” is the tell. It’s kinetic, even violent. Images don’t politely arrive; they’re thrown, often without the recipient’s consent. That’s advertising, politics, and social media in one verb.

The quote also smuggles in a theory of persuasion. Calling images “built of tiny particles of thought” collapses the distance between story and cognition. An “image” isn’t merely a slogan or a visual; it’s an assembled structure made of micro-ideas: assumptions, metaphors, emotional cues, background beliefs. In practice, that’s how brands and leaders win allegiance without arguing point-by-point. They don’t hand you a spreadsheet; they seed a picture of who you are, what the world is like, and what you should want next.

The subtext is accountability. If we’re all creators, then influence isn’t reserved for ad agencies or CEOs; it’s embedded in everyday speech, posts, jokes, and labels. The line flatters the reader with agency while quietly warning that agency is contagious. In an attention economy where “images” travel faster than facts, Williams is insisting that the smallest thoughts are not small at all. They’re the raw materials of other people’s reality.

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Williams, Roy H. (2026, January 15). Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/human-beings-are-creators-flinging-powerful-145072/

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Williams, Roy H. "Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/human-beings-are-creators-flinging-powerful-145072/.

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"Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/human-beings-are-creators-flinging-powerful-145072/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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