As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
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.
Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.
A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.
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.
The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.
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 have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming.
What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.
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.
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are. . . the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very 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.
I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.
Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.