For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity.… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
India's growth drivers are actually two growth drivers. One is consumption, which arises out of our demographic advantage. And the other is… — Chanda Kochhar Copy Share Image
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
“people are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from a particular consumption experience in order to project a certain image… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the… — James Gustave Speth Copy Share Image
Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury,… — Mary DeTurris Poust Copy Share Image
Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it… — Michelle Grabner Copy Share Image
“Born as the raising to the nth power of that initial (and rational) waste that is sports recreation, sports chatter is the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The fair (ph) transforms the process by which we fund Social Security and Medicare because the money paid in consumption is paid… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Modern man is actually close to the picture Huxley describes in his Brave New World : well fed, well clad, satisfied sexually,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
“the only way in which a whole country may save is by reducing its consumption. Consumption is therefore the destruction of wealth,… — Axel Kaiser Copy Share Image
Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“The system of economic production depended on the consumption of every conceivable kind of goods by everyone - consumption of entirely unnecessary… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself. — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
...President [Bush] believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
“Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of… — Alan Goodare Copy Share Image
We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a… — Rick Wagoner Copy Share Image
The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you… — Leslie Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I would want us to start our quest to survive mass extinction by rethinking how we build cities. Cities should be commonplaces… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
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