Time Consuming Quotes:

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Unpredictable, Consuming, Time Consuming

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

- James A. Michener

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

topic: Problem, Consuming, Time Consuming

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

- Randall Terry

topic: Healing, Painful, Process, Time Consuming

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

topic: Life, Time, People, Time Consuming

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

topic: Work Out, Paper, Computer, Another Time, Time Consuming

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

- E. B. White

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

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Enemy, Time Consuming

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

topic: Giving Up, Believe, People, Exemplary, Time Consuming

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

topic: Country, Thinking, California, Time Consuming

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

topic: Jesus, People, Giving, Life Challenges, Time Consuming

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

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

topic: Musical, Cameras, Musician, Layman, Studious

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

topic: Reality, People, Understanding, Difficult Conversations, Social Status

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

topic: Book, Teaching, Writing, Love Teaching, Time Consuming

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

topic: Baby, Block, Book, Jackals, Time Consuming

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

topic: Kindness, Scratches, Needs, Time Consuming

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

topic: Ideas, People, Would Be, Imports, Time Consuming

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

topic: Moving, Waiting, Machines, Time Consuming

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

topic: Art, Writing, Sides, Day To Day Life, Day To Day

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

topic: Long, People, Cooking, Time Consuming

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

source: Source: www.readings.com.au

topic: Art, Writing, School, Writing Essays, Time Consuming

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

- Meaghan Rath

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Special, Green, Consuming, Time Consuming

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

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Cutting, Mexican, Etcetera, Favorite Foods, Mexican Food

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

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Fun, Writing, Thinking, Time Consuming

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

source: Source: www.researchgate.net

topic: Religious, Book, People, Time Consuming

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

topic: Nice, Party, Trying, Time Consuming, Dinner Party

[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

topic: Stress, Like Love, Proud, Time Consuming

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

topic: Book, Email, Starting Out, Time Consuming

Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essential ideas, and some of those practices are abusive.

- Ian MacKaye

source: Source: brightestyoungthings.com

topic: Ideas, Practice, Essentials, Archivists, Time Consuming

There are about 50 or 60 recommendations [in "Win"] for how to communicate, not just the words themselves. All of them had to be tested. And in this short amount of time, it's just very time-consuming and very stressful to ensure that you get it right.

- Frank Luntz

topic: Winning, Stressful, Recommendations, Time Consuming

Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and the actors. We put an ad in Back Stage West and in return we got almost 8,000 headshots from people who wanted to be in the film. We then do a process of selection and a rehearsal process after they are selected. The process of audition is very time consuming.

- Tommy Wiseau

source: "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. April 18, 2011.

topic: Differences, People, Rehearsal, Time Consuming, Headshots

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.

- Eric Drooker

topic: Art, Facts, Form, Time Consuming

The act of recording requires you to look at and handle and touch things, so yes - art is more than just looking and recording. It's messy and time consuming and people might fall in love and get hurt.

- Laurel Nakadate

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Falling In Love, Art, Hurt, Time Consuming

We are having the 100th anniversary of 2015 year of the first in the nation primary in New Hampshire. And these voters take their responsibility very seriously. They like to kick the tires. They get the most up close and personal look in the entire arc of the campaign at the candidates. And debates are time consuming.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Responsibility, Years, Voters, Hampshire, Time Consuming

It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Girl, Sacrifice, Safety, Hijacking, Time Consuming

I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming. But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on. You don't understand how demanding that show is until you're on the inside. That is real work. Real work!

- Wendy Williams

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Real, People, Dancer, Real Work, Time Consuming

Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in vague generalities. You get applause for slogans. And then governing comes. And governing is tedious and it's difficult an it's time-consuming and it demands your attention. And policy isn't vague generalities. It's specifics and it's based on knowledge.

- Mark Shields

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Fun, Airplane, Police, Specifics, Time Consuming

We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

- M. Scott Peck

source: M. Scott Peck (2011). “The Road Less Travelled And Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety”, p.56, Random House

topic: Meaningful, Thinking, Praying, Time Consuming

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

- Thomas McGuane

source: Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.13, Vintage

topic: Consuming, Fly Fishing, Great Fishing, Time Consuming, Trout Fishing

The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

- Sharon Olds

source: Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

topic: Teaching, Nyu, Community, Time Consuming

One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and use underscoring of original music that I was planning on composing. The decision was mostly predicated on knowing how time consuming the editing of dialogue can be and given the various locations we shot in, I didn't want to worry about having to mix room tones in such a short amount of time.

- Garth Kravits

topic: Knowing, Editing, Worry, Original Music, Hide And Seek

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Mean, Home, Night, Knowing Each Other, Love And Affection

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

- Jerry Hall

topic: Acting, Modeling, Consuming, Time Consuming

In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other commercial news organizations. Non-profits such as the Center for Public Integrity are taking on this vital work and without them the prospects for investigative reporting would be even more dire. The Center has been properly celebrated for its careful, rigorous work, and to my mind it has now ascended to the status of national treasure.

- Alex Jones

topic: Integrity, Media, Organization, Uncertain Times, Time Consuming

Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact in time-consuming and meaningful ways... You're flitting from one place to another. You're more likely to pursue superficial engagements rather than deep pursuits. It contributes to this certain MTV approach to life where you engage in something for a few minutes and then there's a commercial... You have to get a grip on reality. Unless you know what is real-what is a real friendship and relationship-neither can have an effect on you.

- Joel Garreau

topic: Meaningful, Running, Real, Real Friendship, Friendships And Relationships

The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.

- John Ralston Saul

topic: Civilization, Democracy, Needs, Time Consuming

If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.

- Patti Stanger

topic: Successful, Men, Phones, Time Consuming, Business Trips

When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek to avenge their deaths. Black, Hispanic, or poor families who have a loved one murdered not only don't expect the district attorney's office to pursue the death penalty -which, of course, is both costly and time consuming- but are surprised when the case is prosecuted at all.

- Helen Prejean

topic: Color, Cities, Office, Poor Family, Time Consuming

I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

- Nel Noddings

source: Nel Noddings (1984). “Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education”, p.180, Univ of California Press

topic: Teaching, Addresses, May, Time Consuming, Presenting

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.

- Rufus Wainwright

topic: Mother, Feels, Labor, Time Consuming

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

- John Wooden

topic: Golf, Found, Enjoy, Time Consuming

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.

- Richard Dawkins

source: Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: World, Details, Culture, Factual, God Delusion

The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It’s frustrating and it’s time-consuming. God bless phone calls.

- George Carlin

topic: Mistake, Phones, Mail, Time Consuming