Wilson Bryan Key famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Ice cubes likely sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than attractive models in cheesecake poses. The inconspicuous ice cubes often hide the invisible sell - invisible, that is, to the conscious mind.
-- Wilson Bryan Key

#Business #Ice #Alcohol
It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously.
-- Wilson Bryan Key

#Ideas #Anxiety #Levels
As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.
-- Wilson Bryan Key

#Emotional #May #Causes
Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that it has any practical application. . . . The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and public relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself.
-- Wilson Bryan Key

#Believe #Agency #Government
Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.
-- Wilson Bryan Key

#Sexy #Ice #Alcohol
Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.
-- Wilson Bryan Key

#Strong #Sex #Emotional

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.
When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.
But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.
It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Wilson Bryan Key famous quotes

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