Consuming Quotes
Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.
Writing down everything I eat makes such a difference, because you never realize how much you're consuming unless you read it later in the day.
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.
As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.
I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.
News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.
The yoga of love is for those who want an all-consuming relationship with their teacher. They see the teacher as an extension of God, of eternity - which all of us are.
Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.
I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience.
A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.
There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.
An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.
The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.
It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.
Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.
The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.
The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.
What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.
I don't want to make statements about where I'm gonna be in 30 years. But as of right now, I definitely have a different relationship with the way I look. It's not all-consuming.
I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I've been consuming unconsciously.
The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.
What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!
It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.
Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.
As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions.
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.
I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.
Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn, pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
We all have firm favourites we bring out at a dinner parties, but it's nice to try something a bit more edgy, or more time-consuming.
Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.