What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.

If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.

Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

The first step in exceeding your customers expectations is to know those expectations.

Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

The value of an item in the mind of a consumer is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.