Quotes About Trying To Be Everything To Everyone

#1. When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life.

Brene Brown

#2. Yep. Nineteen years of trying to be everything to everyone and ending up as no one to myself.

Leisa Rayven

#3. Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.

Eugene H. Peterson

#4. Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#5. The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone.

Robin Sharma

#6. When I'm on a plane, people know where I'm going before I even know where I'm going. People know where you had lunch yesterday, or who you had lunch with. So, trying to avoid sharing everything with everyone is my way of keeping something private in my life.

Alexander Skarsgard

#7. Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have.

Sylvain Reynard

#8. I'm always so raw and unguarded. I'm always open to everything and everyone - or at least try - so I can be vulnerable and touched by everything at all times, which in turn is really inspiring.

Soko

#9. In a time where everything's a flavor of the month, and it's hard to have any sort of longevity, I've been able to sell records still. I want to be the guy that stands out there and says thank you personally to everyone. And I try after my shows and kick it because I want to genuinely say thanks.

Aesop Rock

#10. He was humbled by her infinite love toward him - it shone through even in his afterlife.

H. L. Balcomb

#11. On the set you just have to listen very closely, listen to everyone around you, absorb everything and try to be what they want you to be with the little bitty line that you'd have to say. If it was a good line, it would be such fun to say it with vigor.

Joan Leslie

#12. hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble into its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert himself and say at once and loud, "I am here!

Bram Stoker

#13. I try to find something in everyone that I play - even the most heinous ones. You have to find something that is real and vulnerable about everything that you play.

Milo Ventimiglia

#14. We live in an epoch of denudation.

John Joly

#15. I would be a liar and my fans would hate me if I said to them, 'Oh, we're perfect and everything is great.' We have situations just like everyone else. We're not out in public trying to kill each other, but it's real. We love each other.

Mary J. Blige

#16. Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.

Martha N. Beck

#17. Optimism is the spirit of confident soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I wish you happiness now and whatever will bring happiness to you in the future.

Joan D. Chittister

#19. Everyone was trying to define everything so carefully, Jacinta felt; they wanted to annihilate all questions.

Kathleen Winter

#20. There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity.

Harlan Ellison

#21. Organizing atheists is like hurding cats

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#22. It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

Emily Giffin

#23. Fury is the best fuel of all. It is so clean, so marvelous, so ruthless. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, rage against evil is better than sorrow. Sorrow can't balance the scales.

Lilith Saintcrow

#24. Everyone has secrets, Lou," she says. "Everyone should be allowed their secrets. You can never know everything about a person. You'd go mad trying to.

Sarah Pinborough

#25. I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]

Dani Shapiro

#26. We all have issues we're trying to overcome, Miss Tate. Everyone wants to feel special, whether we admit it or not. And loving without limits and allowing ourselves to be loved in return is what life's all about. Or at least, what it should be about. Everything else just gets in the way.

Leisa Rayven

#27. The reason so many women today struggle to make themselves a priority is because they are trying to be everything for everyone.

Jessica N. Turner

#28. I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.

Norm MacDonald

#29. I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it is.' I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they're not, and that's OK. I'm just going to be me. You can't be everything to everyone.

NeNe Leakes

#30. Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

Sandra Cisneros

#31. When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone

Bonnie Gillespie