#ear

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. ↗

— William Odom

#bottom #case #command #control #general

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#active role #against #been #criticisms #forces

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#ambiguity #between #country #hundred #japan

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#come #easy #go #hard #ideas

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#benefits #fail #failure #first #gives

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors. ↗

— Al Oerter

#best way #capacity #doors #exercise #i

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#drunkard #executives #i #illumination #increasing

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#attract #been #country #did #edge

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#dangerous #enemy #generals #ignore #people

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#age #another #careers #double #life