Paying Too Much Sayings

#1. While you are busy eyeing the progress of others, you lose sight of your own opportunities. Handle your own business and get your personal affairs in order. Paying too much attention to someone else's blessings will ultimately cost you your own.

Carlos Wallace

#2. I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

John Caudwell

#3. Vocabularian (n.) One who pays too much attention to words. In the past I have been accused by various parties of paying too much attention to words. Which is true, I suppose; but what else do I have to pay attention to? Vomiturient

Ammon Shea

#4. The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street.

Dave Brat

#6. There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Desmond Tutu

#8. Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others.

David Meerman Scott

#9. Adam named every creature in the garden. And we've been paying for his presumption ever since.

Marty Rubin

#10. I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

Utah Phillips

#11. Be attentive, paying close attention to your internal and external needs.

Asa Don Brown

#12. If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

Douglas Rushkoff

#13. Everything is a struggle. Everything is relative, too, so I still feel like I'm struggling, in many aspects. I'm not worried about paying my rent next month, but in about two months, we'll see.

Leslie Mann

#14. Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.

Amartya Sen

#15. We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.

Jason Chaffetz

#16. Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle - like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

Dan Brown

#17. Has anything bad ever happened in YOUR life? Anything bad that could have been stopped, if only someone had been paying better attention?"..."And you, Kanan? Is there something bad that could have been prevented, if someone had been watching over you?"..."EVERYBODY'S got something like that.

John Jackson Miller

#18. There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.

Edward Snowden

#19. He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

Charles Dickens

#20. Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

John McCain

#21. A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, & paying attention to every detail including flaws.

April Mae Monterrosa

#22. Sometimes, we try to run so fast that we can't see the dangers until we have them before us. We don't see the tiger hiding in the trees until it is about to eat us. Or we run pass the next opportunity without paying attention.

Mauricio Chaves Mesen

#23. No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

Winkie Pratney

#24. Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a life of their own and I didn't worry about accuracy or biographical truth, so it's not a problem.

Michael Gira

#25. When you're on the road for six months of the year and you're paying New York prices and not even living in your apartment, it just didn't make any sense. So I had to get out of there.

Shaun Fleming

#26. My fault. I should've been paying closer attention." She was paying attention now.

Gerri Russell

#27. Stella, you totally deserve double whatever Jackie's paying you.

Veronica Blade

#28. I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

Tom Golisano

#29. 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.

Curt Schilling

#30. I don't think we should go around life and being miserable all the time and feel the pain of paying. It's a question of what categories we want to spend more on and what categories we want feel that we are spending too much on and we want to cut down.

Dan Ariely

#31. Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

Jane Austen

#32. By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.

Albert Camus

#33. Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.

Jason Chaffetz

#34. I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.

Graham Swift

#35. I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

Lucy Punch

#36. But Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And also, it's about kindness rather than niceness. There's a difference. Kindness is spontaneous and real. Niceness just mostly wants to be liked.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#37. One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.

Aldous Huxley

#38. My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

Barack Obama

#39. You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

Daniel Clowes

#40. To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#41. Pessimism is not good for the soul."
"I sold my soul years ago."
"To whom?"
"The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.

Jonathan Kellerman

#42. Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.

Debbie Stabenow

#43. Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Mark Strand

#44. Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?

Sheldon Adelson

#45. I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

George Clooney

#46. Ultimately, if you want to make movies, you've got to want to make movies every day, when people are paying you to make movies and when they're not, because you're going to get a lot more no's on this business, no matter what it is, than you are going to get yeses.

Morgan Spurlock

#47. Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to.

Noam Chomsky

#48. If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things

Jaggi Vasudev

#49. I always wanted to have a family - that was one of my big wishes. And in school, I'd taken drama, and I'd always wanted to act. I did go to drama school in New York, Los Angeles and London, and I did small parts here and there, but I never really had the time. Modeling was always paying more.

Jerry Hall

#50. If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#51. The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place.

Joe Henderson

#52. The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

Theaster Gates

#53. The federal government should only be providing services for emergencies. You and I, taxpayers, shouldn't be paying for cell phones so someone can have a social life. I just don't think it's appropriate.

Timothy Griffin

#54. O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.

William Shakespeare

#55. Shit or get off the pot."
"Shit or get off the pot? I was paying $250 an hour for advice my father gave me in third grade.

Penelope Ward

#56. People roll their eyes and say, "Oh god, he's not rich or famous." I say it's relative. I mean, look at me: I'm 115 pounds and I grew up without money. To me, I'm rich because I don't have to worry about paying rent. I don't think about money now.

Bradford Cox

#57. Everyone was going crazy, like they'd just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.

Nicole Williams

#58. I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.

T. Colin Campbell

#59. Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.

Richard K. Morgan

#60. If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

Bear Bryant

#61. I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me ... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.

Craig McCaw

#62. Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

Margaret Heffernan

#63. It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.

Dave Obey

#64. I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very ... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

Patrick Stump

#65. Leaving my family behind was very scary. I had to grow up quick. But being so young and paying in this league [the WNBA], I'm glad I did it because it's been the best experience in my life.

Lauren Jackson

#66. Maybe the ability to confer attention to another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity. When it came down to it, all we ever really have to give each other is our attention. Wasn't that what love was? Paying selfless attention?

Carolyn Jourdan

#67. I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.

Salman Rushdie

#68. Linc?"
"Yeah."
"About the other thing my dad said to you," I cringed.
"What else is he supposed to think?" he asked, a smile in his tone. "You're over here all the time. If not training, we're hanging out. I'm surprised he hasn't warned me off sooner. It's good to see he's paying attention.

Jessica Shirvington