Super Consumers Quotes & Sayings

It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing and being that entails a difficult and prolonged readjustment. the reflexive mechanism of the mind -or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious - is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind is ever after held in a fixed now moment out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze upon the Unknown — Bernadette Roberts

If we were all minimalists instead of conspicuous consumers, there would be less demand on the world's resources and we'd have a smaller, less berserk economy. We'd be less likely to harm the only planet we'll ever have, and the super-rich would have fewer ways to exploit us. — Robert Wringham

I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with. — Nicholas Stoller

She wasn't getting over him. In fact, she wanted Lucas even more now than she did weeks ago when she almost kissed him in his bed that first night after they fell. — Josephine Angelini

If we are in a supermarket when someone drops a bag of groceries on the floor and we don't help that person pick things up, what difference does it make how deeply we know we're a being of God?. — Lee Lozowick

Having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experiences of shaping that artwork. The viewers' concerns are not your concerns (although it'd dangerously easy to adopt their attitudes.) Their job is wahtever it is: to be moved by art, to be entertained by it, to make a killing off it, whatever. Your job is to learn to work on your work. — David Bayles

The great person never loses a childlike spirit. — Mencius

Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. — Colson Whitehead

A record is a message, timeless. — Ziggy Marley

However, the outcome is inconsistent with the general principle that people should not be punished in the absence of culpability, since one who acts on the basis of a reasonable mistake of law lacks moral blameworthiness. — Joshua Dressler

You want to know the secret of my success? Let me tell you about eugenics ... — Zach Braff

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music]. — Michael Tilson Thomas

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down. — Frederick Douglass