Advertisements Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin Download Open image “We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires.” — Daniel J. Boorstin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advertisements Advertising Business Desire Inspirational
We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always readyeven eagerto discover, from the announcement of a new product, what… — Daniel J Boorstin Copy Share Image
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention. — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
“Appealing to our subconscious emotions rather than our conscious intellects, advertisements are designed to exploit the discontentments fostered by the American dream, the constant… — Sonia Maasik Copy Share Image
If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste. — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Ads create dialogue, they create conversation, they create attention - that's our objective. — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our… — Iris Smyles Copy Share Image
I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think if you can create a meaningful thing that is also an advertisement that's a pretty cool option for brands. — Doug Walters Copy Share Image
I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen… — Gerard J Tellis Copy Share Image
Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have a different… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
I think that the best approach would be if the American people ever insist that we cut down on the massive amounts of money… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image