David Ogilvy Quotes

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.

Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the Five Levels Of Truth Telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to.

People are more interested in someone who goes on stage and tells the truth.

When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

Always tell the truth and be true.

When you sing, always tell the truth.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'