Spread Yourself Too Thin Quotes

#1. I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when you're a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.

Tika Sumpter

#2. I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.

Paul Feig

#3. If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

Katherine Heigl

#4. It sometimes seems to me that in this life we've all got to have trouble sooner or later, and some of us gets it bit by bit, spread out thin, so to speak, and a few of us gets it in a lump - biff!

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

Aaliyah

#6. I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

Nate Silver

#7. I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.

Jeremy Northam

#8. As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

Elton Gallegly

#9. Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

Tom Robbins

#10. His is the name of fire, the name that rides the whisper of the candlelight. His name was ... is ... Racath Thanjel. And this is his story.
-The Penitent God

S.G. Night

#11. Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.

Jennifer Pahlka

#12. Don't try to be good at everything, don't spread yourself so thin that you accomplish nothing; rather, pick a few things and do them well. Excel in those areas and you'll excel in life.

Rachel Van Dyken

#13. Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

Alexander Pope

#14. When we use the logic of consequence, we can always find reasons not to take risks. The

Adam M. Grant

#15. The details of my thoughts bled into thin pieces of paper, spread across miles to touch hearts of the people; who've lost their truest homes- themselves.

Nikki Rowe

#16. Depression is rage spread thin.

George Santayana

#17. Boredom is rage spread thin

Paul Tillich

#18. When you stand between two mirrors you're spread out among the images, your whole soul is pulled out thin, and somewhere in the distant images a dark part of you might get out and come looking for you, if you aren't careful.

Terry Pratchett

#19. That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#20. Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

Alexander Pope

#21. We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.

William Cowper

#22. A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. Losing my sight, losing my mind, i wish somebody would tell me im fine. I never realized i was spread too thin untill it was too late and i was empty within. Hungry, feeding on chaos and living on sin.

Papa Roach

#24. Don't spread patriotism too thin.

Theodore Roosevelt

#25. Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.

George Steiner

#26. Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits.
Don't spread patriotism too thin.

Theodore Roosevelt

#27. With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.

Melissa Rosenberg

#28. The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.

Jane Green

#29. MTV has always been about redefining itself.

Martha Quinn

#30. Always-
the sharp,
plaintive edge
on the rim
of the spoon
of my giving.
(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')

Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

#31. Be a person who sees endless beauty in nature and in humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#32. I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.

Bryan Greenberg

#33. I can't spread myself too thin to where I have nothing left to give!

Kelly Rowland

#34. I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

Corey Reynolds

#35. If I'd had a friend next to me, I would have squeezed her arm and said, Can you believe this? - but kitsch wasn't kitsch if you were alone.

Emma Straub

#36. I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.

Pete Seeger

#37. The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.

Peter Serafinowicz