#w

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 don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other. ↗

— Al Oerter

#attract #each #ever #i #interest

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history. ↗

— Al Oerter

#history #i #my own #other #own

I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best. ↗

— Al Oerter

#beat #best #i #just #never

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#bigger #company #dwarfs #each #giants

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising agencies #agencies #business #cannot #deaf

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#eccentricities #gaga #get #going #old

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#comedy #doing #expect #like #records

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#consumer #moron #she #wife #your

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#am #better #drink #far #find