A Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Buying Deepest Emotions His Ordinary Person Products Supermarket Touch

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John Kenneth Galbraith
American - Economist
October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006

Whether it's buying products or researching what you're buying, or just becoming aware of what you're buying, you're saying so much with the money that you're spending.

Jayma Mays

A lot of our happiness is derived from experiences, not from buying products. People are twice as happy buying experiences as products. People are happy buying experiences. They don't want something that's commoditised.

Ruzwana Bashir

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

Geoff Mulgan

Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to understand much about his fellow human beings.

Martha Stout

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

Marc Ostrofsky

Products are a must - full stop. I'm sorry to say it, but that bob won't look so sleek on its own - you need a little help. It doesn't have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.

Beth Ditto

With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time.

Edwin Catmull

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

Molly Ivins

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

Ellen Glasgow

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

John Mayer

I think being in touch with your emotions is very key as an actor, and I think experiencing life is the only way to be in touch with your emotions.

Juno Temple

There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.

Desmond Tutu

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

Rollo May

My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.

Molly Ivins

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.