Top 1200 Asking Too Much Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.

Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.

With a gimmick, there isn't much substance. If you play to the crowd too much, it can go bad.

Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

I could go on and on and on about how we use the word 'place' in so many different ways. About how somebody might ask you 'Where you at?' And they're not asking where are you sitting, where are you living, they're asking: 'How are you doing?

I don't want to spend too much time dwelling on what I've already done because there is still so much to do.

If you don't plan to dive in and dedicate all of your time to your startup, you probably shouldn't be looking for funding. It's hard enough asking for money when you believe in an idea; asking for money to fund something you're iffy about is ten times more strenuous.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch.

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

A lot of times I'll be playing roles for which I'm too long in the tooth, but people who go see musicals don't seem to worry too much about that.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Being naive I think is how you construct new music. When you start thinking too much what is it you're doing? You're just making an album. You're not doing brain surgery. If you take it too seriously you start taking yourself too seriously.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

Perfection, to me ,means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.

Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much money to learn.

To get to the top in anything, you have to keep asking yourself questions. How much do I really want this? What am I prepared to give up to get it?

In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.

You never ask a Maasai warrior how many cattle he has; it's like asking someone how much money they've got in their bank account.

I don't know why I've always been uncomfortable being too feminine. If a dress has too many flowers on it, if I'm giggling too much, I'm like ugh, put some combat boots on. I love masculine women. I think it's because I'm like a fake lesbian, I don't know.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

Really, I've been at the BBC too long and have spent too much time out on the road to worry about being judged as a clothes horse.

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

When I model, I pretty much blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

I don't care that much about rankings, and that doesn't matter that much in the UFC, too.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

I spend so much time thinking and I don't generally have strong emotional reactions too much.

I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams.

I beat myself a little bit too much sometimes. When you beat yourself a little bit too much, there's little things that make you miserable.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I always had a very strong sense of responsibility, so the minute I started to work in fashion, I was always tremendously serious-too much sometimes. Of course, you can make a lot of mistakes in this job-I still do-but you need to limit them as much as possible. When you're responsible for such a huge company, you cannot play too much. In the beginning, I was working 20 hours per day and I was going crazy. I learned that I needed to delegate and to trust the people around me, but there is still not one element that I don't see or edit or discuss with my people.

I juice a lot; I get as much protein as I can, because being a vegan, there isn't much protein. But that's pretty much it. I just drink lots of water, too. I'll have a protein shake as well every morning.

When I run on the treadmill, I read. But I have found that the only way to read while on the treadmill is to hold the book, since it moves around too much on the stand, you move around too much. I've gotten very good at holding a book and running, which tends to screw up my neck a little bit.

I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

I learned about forty years ago that money and things wouldn't make people happy. And this has been confirmed many times. I have met many millionaires. They had one thing in common. None of them were happy....I realize that if you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

At times during hockey, I know myself, you get so wrapped up in it, you squeeze your stick a little too much, all those things, or you're too focused.

I'm not working out as much as I was, I ended up losing too much weight.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

Embarrassment has a lot to do with thinking too much. Let it go. Nobody cares as much as you think they do.

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

You asked Marco Rubio if it was too little too late. I think there's a little bit of too much too late, which is, he is just getting down in the muck with Donald Trump. And when you get down in the muck, you get up with muck on you.

When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam.