Quotes About Spinning Plates

#1. I'm not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.

Drew Barrymore

#2. I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

Rory Bremner

#3. My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

Sherri Shepherd

#4. If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#5. I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

Annie Lennox

#6. Women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#7. Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing that is on our mind.

Yasmin Mogahed

#8. All things pass away. Only Love and her creations endure.

Iimani David

#9. I don't keep things safe. I used to. Perhaps. I can't keep all the plates spinning. I drop some." ... "Well, that is always the risk, if you're a plate, isn't it? If you want to be spun, then you must accept the possibility of being broken.

Paul Cornell

#10. Drawing and composition are the same thing.

John French Sloan

#11. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#12. 'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly ... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.

Leigh-Allyn Baker

#13. The profound originality of a divine-human pact in which both parties complain endlessly about each other has too rarely been acknowledged as such.

Jack Miles

#14. Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.

Ahmet Ertegun

#15. A person who never truly lost themselves could never truly find themselves, either.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#16. To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.

Shaquille O'Neal

#17. Life is easy if you don't take it difficult

Nazali Noor

#18. I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

Damon Albarn

#19. You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#20. I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment.

Megan Miranda

#21. Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

James Clavell