S.A. David Quotes
I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.
David Ogilvy made his copywriters come up 100 different headlines for every ad they wrote.
The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising
SEO is knowing what the search engines want and giving it to them... so hard they f***ing bleed
It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look, and read.
That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think.
Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls
To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!
When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.
The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return.
