#tent

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#attention #attract #big #big idea #buy

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#because #commands #get #had #i

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. ↗

— Ben Okri

#away #both #common #doing #draw

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space. ↗

— Ben Okri

#great #here #magic #only #our

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance. ↗

— Will Oldham

#definitely #extent #i #i write #last

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#career #comes #control #desk #engineer

If you're saving for the long run, it's actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time - decades, not months - the markets rise more than they fall. ↗

— Suze Orman

#actually #because #decades #down #fall

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#attention spans #carrying #course #credit #even

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false. ↗

— Charles Olson

#even #everybody #extent #false #interesting

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States. ↗

— John Olver

#bush #choice #civilian #conduct #cost