Quotes About Consumption

The phrase in tech writing was "easy reading comes from hard writing." Easy consumption of an app comes from really hard work on the backend. - Tori Wieldt

I would say there are two major groups of people: those who create content and those who consume content - Yakov Fain

If it´s true that we are what we eat, then I could be you by morning.

Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence.

And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.

I don't need three cars and a great big fucking house [for two people]. But I do and I want it. This is the issue.

The point is that the overwhelming energy cost associated with food is not in the food itself (the 2,000 food calories a day per person) but in its production, transportation, distribution, and marketing through the supply chain from farms to stores to your house and ultimately to your mouth.

I don't need three cars and a great big fucking house [for two people]. But I do and I want it. This is the issue. [The Future of the Planet: Life, Growth and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies. SFI Community Lecture, August 29, 2017]

The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and new washing machines, new thrills, new entertainment, and pretty much new everything, even when they already have enough of "everything.

And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say 'Gluttony'. They say 'Consumerism'.

The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.

To focus on the objective price rather than on the subjective experience of consuming the good itself stabilizes my behvaior toward it.

If you consider how most churches deliver content—appointing one person as the authority and encouraging everyone else to sit (consume) quietly while he or she speaks—it is easy to see how that delivery system may come into conflict with changing cultural expectations.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.

The risk-bearing role of the rich cannot be performed so well by anyone else. The benefits of capitalism still depend on capitalists. The other groups on the pyramid of wealth should occasionally turn from the spectacles of consumption long enough to see the adventure on the frontiers of the economy above them - an adventure not without its note of nobility...

I looked at Curran. "You killed an animal god and then you ate him?" "Maybe," Curran said. "What do you mean maybe?

We're just living on our emotions and eating each other.

The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.

Money makes the man a beast.

All her troubles were caused by her madness for clothes. She simply could not think about anything else.

A los ventidós años, sospechando que tenían el tiempo contado, Ichimei y ella se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero cuanto más intentaban agotarlo, más imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca; hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aún así quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxígeno.

We are very self-centered: the rest of the universe exists only to consume our wines and produce soccer teams we can beat.

A los veintidós años, sospechando que tenían el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras más intentaban agotarlo, más imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun así quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxígeno.»