Top 100 Do Too Much Quotes
#1. When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is no wrong way ... if it comes from the heart.
Debbi Fields
#2. I'm not big on awareness about what's going on online but usually if you do too much online stuff then you usually bump into something that hurts.
Alice Eve
#3. The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.
Brian Tracy
#4. The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.
Andy Stanley
#5. For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.
Larry Fitzgerald
#6. I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.
Scottie Thompson
#7. A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.
Charlie Munger
#8. See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I'm really feeling. And it doesn't. It's a shortcut.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#9. I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?
Noah Taylor
#10. By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.
Peggy Noonan
#11. You can never do too much drawing.
Tintoretto
#12. Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There is danger, and the scares have to kick in the right places with the drama. And you try not to do too much to try to create those moments. Those moments create themselves.
Fede Alvarez
#13. I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.
Courtney Love
#14. People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
Jack Ma
#15. When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.
Andre Ethier
#16. An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.
Nick Harkaway
#17. The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
Charles A. Reich
#18. I didn't have to do too much "research" or acting to play this guy. (laughs) It is actually very difficult to manage all the time. The Community schedule is crushing and it kills me because I don't get to be with my family as much as I'd like.
Joel McHale
#19. I didn't do too much. I came here (to The Magic Castle) and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.
Evan Jones
#20. Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
Euripides
#22. You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.
Donald Rumsfeld
#23. When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.
Ronald Reagan
#24. The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.
Jerry Jeff Walker
#25. If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.
Nir Eyal
#26. The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#27. There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.
Charles Dickens
#28. Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying?
Andrew Dominik
#29. In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.
Junot Diaz
#30. Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
Ed Belfour
#31. People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
Bertolt Brecht
#32. If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.
Bob Ross
#33. If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.
Prince Fielder
#34. We listen to the entrepreneur. We try to have a fine tuning fork to understand what they are saying and whether that makes sense and know it when we see it. We don't try to do too much predicting.
David Sze
#35. When you get frustrated you try to do too much, you try to make stuff up that's not there, and you play outside yourself.
Matt Hasselbeck
#36. Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.
Cory Lidle
#37. I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous.
Tim Curry
#38. Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one
and then we do too little.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.
Mario Balotelli
#40. If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour?
James Hudson Taylor
#41. Women aren't trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.
Mary Blakely
#42. Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case ...
Lisa Belkin
#43. Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.
Martin Luther
#44. With the horse I always consider that if I do too much in too little time and I'm not patient, he's gonna shut down and I won't get anything done.
Buck Brannaman
#45. Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard
#46. One had rather, on such occasions, do too much than too little.
Jane Austen
#47. It's far better to do less and do it well,
than to do too much and do it poorly.
Sometimes you have to push yourself away from the table and say, "I'm full.
Monika Kristofferson
#48. You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Lillian Hellman
#49. One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.
Dick Gephardt
#50. I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.
Robert Griffin III
#52. I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
Wale
#53. In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#54. Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.
Richard Marius
#55. I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.
Doc Brown
#56. It is better to do too much than to do too little.
Bas Rutten
#57. I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.
Philip Kerr
#58. Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.
Neal A. Maxwell
#59. I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.
Nick Nolte
#60. I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.
Martine McCutcheon
#61. Can we do too much for the Lord? Certainly we all love Him. Therefore, I implore us, keep His commandments and become more like Him. Come unto Christ, eat the bread of life, drink the living water, and feast on His limitless love. He is our Savior, our Master, of whom I bear my humble witness.
F. Melvin Hammond
#62. I'm relaxed at the plate. I'm not trying to do too much.
Johnny Damon
#63. In order that people may be happy in their work,
these three things are needed:
they must be fit for it;
they must not do too much of it;
and they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin
#64. If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
Confucius
#65. I know where my game is. I know I'm a power hitter and an RBI guy. I need to get on base for my teammates behind me and just stick with my game. I don't try to do too much. Sometimes when you try to do too much in this game you pretty much can't do anything. And that's pretty much my mentality.
Marco Scutaro
#67. What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.
Susan Eisenhower
#68. We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.
Rick Perry
#69. I'm being a lot more consistent, trying to make every swing look the same. I'm doing what the situation calls for and trying not to do too much.
Nick Swisher
#71. I have a few celebrity friends, but I'm really not into the whole Hollywood scene. I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same.
Keke Palmer
#72. It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
Steve Jobs
#73. Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.
Louis Sachar
#74. I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.
Matthew Macfadyen
#75. Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
Frei Otto
#76. A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don't want to do too much.
Gong Li
#77. And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs
#78. Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.
Rick Aster
#79. I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
Sara Zarr
#80. I don't like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, 'You're the next character.' People think that's what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I've never done that at all.
Chris Lilley
#81. Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.
T.E. Lawrence
#82. It is not good to do too much at once. We have a saying. A man cannot walk on two different paths at the same time. It will crack his buttocks.
Tajewo Ole Ndaskoi
Suzanne Arruda
#83. Women do too much shit to impress men who can barely tell the difference.
Anna Todd
#84. While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Ambrose Bierce
#85. Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
Victor Hugo
#86. You have got a good side? I have. I just do not use it too often. My bad side is so much more fun.
Faye Kellerman
#87. People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.
Ray Bradbury
#88. When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'
Drew Barrymore
#89. Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.
Devon Aoki
#90. I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we do mostly is offer forgiveness. We need cleansing! There is no true conversion until a man takes up his cross.
Leonard Ravenhill
#91. Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness, but, in fact, all thought is sickness, which is why no one ever thinks too much, at least most people do their best not to.
Javier Marias
#92. I have a great support team. I have very understanding parents that do not put too much pressure on me, and I have close friends that I lean on for support.
Olivia Stuck
#93. I tend to think too much, Bast. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do
what I did.
Patrick Rothfuss
#94. We borrow. We steal. We purchase what we need and buy what we don't. We acquire things, people, places, all in the process of losing ourselves. Busyness is the religion of distraction. I cannot talk to you, because I have too much to do.
Terry Tempest Williams
#95. One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.
Hans Christian Andersen
#96. I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
Oscar Nunez
#97. My thing is, I like to do things as long as they're relatively fluid or easy. Not to say that there isn't any effort involved in making something happen, but I don't like to push things or force things too much.
Reggie Watts
#98. Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way ...
Paul Arden
#99. Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
Sophocles
#100. The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough.
Rick Warren
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