Quotes of: Consumer Keyword

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

Vivienne Westwood

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Walt Mossberg

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food. We are not addicts. “I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering ou...

Creativity

But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact: the standards of behavior are still those of kind and quantity, the security sought is still the...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Living beings wide and far are creatively enticed into the idea of living only on the substance of leafy greenery by alluring allegations that seem to make apparent sense. Some want to avoid the dying aspect of life and prolong the bodily functions o...

Life

.....what happened to my little brother had to fit into my life, not consume or define it.

Cheer: A Novel

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

Consumer Behaviour: A European Perspective

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

A Call to Prayer

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Brave New World

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Jonathan Sacks

Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.

Timothy Noah

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

Warren De la Rue

The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the market...

Geoffrey Canada

In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume.

Gillian Jacobs

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.

Drew Bledsoe

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.

Virginia Postrel

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

Red Rider's Hood

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

Romeo and Juliet

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Mastery