Vance Packard Professions : Journalist Born : May 22, 1914 Died : December 12, 1996 Browse All Authors Top 14 quotes by Vance Packard Leadership appears to be the art of getting others Vance Packard done leadership art New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character. Vance Packard self character people The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded. Vance Packard police citizens home As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to see blue skies... What was needed was strategies that would make Americans in large numbers into voracious, wasteful, compulsive consumers-and strategies that would provide products assuring such wastefulness. Even where wastefulness was not involved, additional strategies were needed that would induce the public to consume at ever-higher levels. Vance Packard sky blue numbers At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on. Vance Packard agency america people In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard. Vance Packard marketing technique past Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun. Vance Packard horse cat fun The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. Vance Packard creativity powerful men If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat. Vance Packard political intellectual two The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. Vance Packard redemption computer christian Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. Vance Packard hysteria rocks music You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's. Vance Packard funny-money wealth son Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. Vance Packard you done leadership art Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria. Vance Packard rock up hysteria rock-and-roll Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalist All Authors
