Quotes Tagged "consumption"

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

I mean, there aren't many inventions that actually succeed in meeting some human need. Ninety-nine percent of them are just some ugly combo of pushy marketing and spineless consumers.

In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold, postponing this final bit of illumination. At last though, he grips the match by the neck and after locating the friction strip sparks to life a final ball of light. First, he reads a few lines by match light and then as the heat bites his fingertips he applies the flame to the page. Here then is one end: a final act of reading, a final act of consumption. And as the fire rapidly devours the paper, Navidson's eyes frantically sweep down over the text, keeping just ahead of the necessary immolation, until as he reaches the last few words, flames lick around his hands, ash peels off into the surrounding emptiness, and then as the fire retreats, dimming, its light suddenly spent, the book is gone leaving nothing behind but invisible traces already dismantled in the dark.

We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which name packages designed for passive consumption only -- 'to learn' becomes 'to accumulate credits'.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.

Technology loves and thrives and makes gobs of money on conspicuous consumption.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

Everything that I embody is the fluidity of my own consumption.

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

In flush times, a rising tide of consumption can compensate for less than optimal branding, positioning, pricing or segmentation.

In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.