Eccentricity Quote by David Ogilvy Download Open image “Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life” — David Ogilvy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eccentricity Later in life Life Senile Thinking
Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric. — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible,… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve. — Marjorie Benton Cooke Copy Share Image
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Your alcoholics may include some of your brightest stars. The problem is to identify them, protected as they always are by their secretaries and… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another,… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“English: "From a certain degree of freedom, understanding is impossible." Česky: „Od určité míry svobody je dorozumění nemožné.” — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy. — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it. — Osbert Lancaster Copy Share Image
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image