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• You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Acting, Energy

  "A Taste of Death: Thirty Days with U.G. in Gstaad, Switzerland" by Mahesh Bhatt, 1995.

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• As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

  David Johansen

  Children, Recalls

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• The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.

  Bernard d'Espagnat

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

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• 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.

  Kristen Stewart

  Years, Want, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

  Martin Scorsese

  Problem, Easy, Certain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

  William Congreve

  Ambition, Fire, Self

  1700 The Way of the World, act 3, sc.12.

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• To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail, no matter how terrible. It is always easier to write a piece of fluff and leave everybody smiling. But then, the horrors of poaching would continue unchallenged?like as tent caterpillars consuming an apple orchard, our species mindlessly consumes the others of the earth. At present, the most significant hope for our planet may be knowledge, and Richard Ellis has done a heroic job in providing a large measure of that.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

  Clay Shirky

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• Consuming is the opposite of producing.

  Noah Kagan

  Opposites, Entrepreneur

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• We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to run out and it is imperative that governments in both producing and consuming nations prepare now for that time. We should not cling to crude down to the last drop – we should leave oil before it leaves us. That means new approaches must be found soon..... The really important thing is that even though we are not yet running out of oil, we are running out of time.

  Fatih Birol

  Running, Mean, Order

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• I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

  David Remnick

  Jobs, Day Jobs, Journalist

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• Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.

  James Purdy

  Dope, Race, Poison

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Sex, Children

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• I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Writing, School, Kids

  Interview with Claire Boucher, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.

  David Gemmell

  Warrior, Pride, Fire

  David Gemmell (2005). “Lord of the Silver Bow”, Bantam Press

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• Too much quiet left me depressed and consuming condiments for meals.

  Tammara Webber

  Meals, Too Much, Quiet

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• "Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite variety, using 'like' as in 'I like to breathe.'

  Sandra Boynton

  Passion, Chocolate, Infinite

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• 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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Marriage, Husband, People

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• 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.

  Steve King

  Passion, Something New, Turns

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• Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.

  George MacDonald

  Beautiful, Fire, Views

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Running, Country, Mean

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• I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

  Grace Hartigan

  Feelings, Important, Obsession

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• Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.And it reflects American's consumption ideas rather than its savings ideas.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Mean, Ideas, Buying

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• Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

  Andre Agassi

  Stress, Pride, Want

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• A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

  Sigmund Freud

  Horse, Passion, Men

  Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Fliess (1957). “The Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters, Drafts and Notes to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1902”

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