Consumption Quote by Charles Eisenstein Download Open image “Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun.” — Charles Eisenstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumption Consumption Fun Entertainment Entertainment Consumption Fun Play Play Production Productions
Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Entertainment is there to improve people's quality of life. After your basic needs, there's entertainment. — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, psychology has not adequately come to grips with the difficult subject of entertainment (or with its opposite, boredom). Despite a few initial efforts… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
Entertainment has nothing to do with any other stuff, because entertainment is entertainment and is supposed to make people happy. — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
I know people say plays are only an evening's entertainment. But you can make it mean a lot to the audience, even a farce… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
It's a game to be enjoyed. For us, it's also a business - it's a job. But you play better when you're having fun. — Cody Bellinger Copy Share Image
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work. — Katie Salen Copy Share Image
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play… — Maurice Baring Copy Share Image
My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
What makes you care about nature, about the planet? Is it really that you're afraid of what's going to happen if you don't take… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Real change doesn't come without crisis. Childbirth doesn't come without crisis. I think that's happening with humanity now. Our growth has generated multiple crises...and… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
So much of our politics is stuck in patterns of response that aren't working. When student performance is declining in schools, we implement more… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I'll start with where we are right now. The map that I'll use is this birthing process, this kind of profound transition that we're… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me,… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
You could conceive spirituality as the study of the immeasurable, of the qualitative. But that's very different from the way we typically use the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“We have bigger houses but smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment;… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes… — Michael Dean Crapo Copy Share Image
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm.… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
