Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot.
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
Beauty: it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and it you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you ha
...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we mustrise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Peace will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have to be proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their cases and pay the cost.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of man, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its missi
Abroad in the world today is a monstrous falsehood, a consummate fabrication, to which all social agencies have loaned themselves and into which most men, women, and children have been seduced..."the Eleventh Commandment"; for such, indeed, has become the injunction: You Must Adjust.
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
By the data to date, there i sonly one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.