Consuming Quotes - Page 13

• What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.

  Jason Kilar

  Sleep, Thinking, Sight

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• In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Real, Women

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Anger, Thinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Transformation and Healing”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Prayer, Fire, Giving

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• Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in
  themselves.

  Erich Fromm

  Running, People, Suggestions

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.119, A&C Black

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• Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

  Frederick Buechner

  Envy, Desire, Unsuccessful

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become so materialistic that we think having a good job, and consuming like crazy to compensate for the dehumanization of the job, is living like a human being.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

  Taika Waititi

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds - and serving as an instruction manual for how to chase away readers and ignore historical insights.

  Gotz Aly

  Writing, Self, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.

  Sarah Dessen

  Character, Perfect, Long

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.

  Yoko Ono

  Confused, People, Confusion

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• Although I feel directing is a lot more challenging, fulfilling and satisfying, it is also far more stressful & consuming. This is why I don't see myself directing one film after another in quick succession.

  Nandita Das

  Challenges, Film, Stressful

  Source: dfuse.in

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• I want to make something I would find joy in consuming. Personally, I enjoy those projects that are worth me investing time and energy and thought into, to find a work that has more to say than will fit in a 4 minute song.

  Crowder

  Song, Joy, Energy

  "David Crowder, Neon Steeple". Interview with Nate Fancher, www.natefancher.com. August 22, 2014.

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• I know that some people feel that cooking is time consuming, but cooking is an activity that you can do for yourself and you'll be in good condition to do all the other things that you want to do in your life for a very long time.

  William Katt

  Long, People, Cooking

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• 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.

  Evan Williams

  Ideas, People, Would Be

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• Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.

  Mark Addy

  Shooting, Stuff, Complicated

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Kenneth Clark

  Writing, Fire, Burning

  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Martin Dieterle, Kenneth Clark, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries (1996). “Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875): late paintings”

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• Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

  Menander

  War, Iron, Clothes

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• There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point of all goodness. It comes bringing with it, if not the freshness of innocence, yet a glow of inspiration that nerves feeble hands for hard tasks, a fire of hope that lights anew the old high ideal, so that it stands before the eye in clear relief, beckoning to make it out on its own.

  Charles Brent

  Forgiveness, Inspiration, Eye

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• 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.

  Sam Keen

  Despair, Hopelessness, Planets

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

  Farley Mowat

  Choices, Substance, World

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• The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions of the expertise of the few and of the moral agency of everyone are the presuppositions of the dramas which those characters enact. To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Drama, Character, Men

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.298, A&C Black

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• There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

  Jake Heggie

  Shapes, Opera, Reason Why

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

  Colin Angle

  Distance, Team, Risk

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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• I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.

  Tony Scott

  Morning, Shooting, Firsts

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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