#peri

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#best #come #done #experience #good

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. ↗

— Ben Okri

#beautiful #beautiful things #because #best #despair

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. ↗

— Ben Okri

#always #bit #bore #challenging #completely

It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#administrative #during #fact #give #hard

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience. ↗

— Mike Oldfield

#father #good #good father #i #i think

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#bit #deal #early #focus #great

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#anyone #care #close #else #even

I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#done #energy #focused #for the people #fulfill

There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#anyway #atlanta #cast #dinner #experience

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#dead #fruit #get #greatest #likely