Time Consuming Quotes

• There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

  James A. Michener

  Problem, Consuming, Only Time

  James A. Michener (2014). “Space: A Novel”, p.258, Dial Press

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• Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

  Randall Terry

  Pain, Healing, Process

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• People find life entirely too time-consuming.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Life, Time, People

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• Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Work Out, Paper, Computer

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• One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Enemy

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.199, Cornell University Press

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• You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary lives...You have to believe in yourself so much that you're willing to do what's uncomfortable, time-consuming, inconvenient, and on occasion seemingly impossible. When you don't believe in yourself this much, pretend.

  Victoria Moran

  Giving Up, Believe, People

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• Well, I think finding the weapons of mass destruction is going to be quite time consuming. I know we've uncovered some documents, we'll have to exploit them, and we're going to have to blanket a country the size of California and search, I think, quite rigorously, but we'll come up with them.

  Richard Armitage

  Country, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• Don't waste your time consuming what makes you weak. Spend your time pressing in for the Presence. Become so intimate with Jesus, so full of Him, that it does not matter what challenges in life present themselves to you. You will be so spiritually full that you can feed a multitude of other people's needs. Jesus will give you more than enough.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Giving, People

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• Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs. Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way.

  Howard S. Becker

  Musical, Needs, Use

  "Visual Research Methods". Book by Peter Hamilton, 2006.

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• We don't live in a shared reality, we each live in a reality of our own, and causing upset is often the price of trying to reach each other. It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them. We have given 'taking offense' a social status it doesn't deserve: it's not much more than a way of avoiding difficult conversations.

  Frankie Boyle

  Reality, People, Understanding

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• 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.

  Danica McKellar

  Book, Teaching, Writing

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• Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands there in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Baby, Block, Book

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• There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Kindness, Scratches, Needs

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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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• 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.

  Eddie Murphy

  Moving, Waiting, Machines

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• Our day-to-day lives are pretty chaotic. So in terms of the writing part, you have to get pretty disciplined about finding quiet moments and making sure you're making time for the art side, on top of all the time-consuming business side.

  Sarah Kay

  Art, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Source: saseye.com

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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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• I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words. So, writing essays busts my arse because the art is in addressing the subject. I find it really difficult and monstrously time-consuming. In an essay I need to employ my imagination but it's indentured in a way it's not when I'm free to make everything up.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Writing, School

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

  Meaghan Rath

  Special, Green, Consuming

  Source: collider.com

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• Mexican food is my absolute, #1 favorite food. But all the cutting and dicing is very time-consuming. I do like to cook a few times a week, but it's not always that intricate with the shells and the cheese, etcetera.

  Wendy Williams

  Cutting, Mexican, Etcetera

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

  Alison Bechdel

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.

  Tom Peters

  Religious, Book, People

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• 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.

  Tom Aikens

  Nice, Party, Trying

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• [Doing music] is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you're putting out music you're proud of, it will never feel like work. It'll just feel like love.

  Melanie Martinez

  Stress, Like Love, Proud

  Source: graffitibeach.wordpress.com

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• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Email, Starting Out

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