David Ogilvy Quotes

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

David Ogilvy

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• The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Job
  • War

• A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Goals
  • Diversity
  • Sales

• Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Game

• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Like
  • Things
  • Repeat

• The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Done
  • True
  • Success

• Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Important
  • History
  • Tool

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Real
  • Nature

• You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Help
  • Strong

• Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Great
  • Successful

• The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

  

  Garth Davis
  • World
  • Work
  • Character

• Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Wish

• Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Present
  • Old

• But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Think
  • Crazy
  • Stronger

• One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Forget
  • Being

• I like to do a couple of yoga classes during the week. Yoga for me is more of an elongating thing.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Couple
  • Yoga

• I don't want to generalize, but the target audience for a lot of the YouTube people is fairly young - under the age of 16. You still want to know what those people are watching, because I think it's interesting, but sometimes it just makes you feel old.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • People
  • Age
  • Interesting

• I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

  

  Jenna Bush

• Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human

• The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

  

  David Ogilvy