Too Invested Quotes

#1. Ellie tells me, often, some variation on this theme: that I am a little too invested in how I'm feeling about church and God, and perhaps not invested enough in how I am serving church, God, neighbor.

Lauren F. Winner

#2. I don't know, and have no intention of finding out. IQ is like dick size - if you have to measure, you're way too invested in it. And both are gauche to discuss in polite company. (Upon being asked his IQ on Quora)

Adrian Lamo

#3. I studied the smile, couldn't decide if it looked sincere or rehearsed. And that thought troubled me. I was good at reading people and their intentions, but only if I wasn't too invested. Once invested, I couldn't separate what I wished to be true from what was actually true.

Penny Reid

#4. For all my bravado, when I fell, I fell hard. I fell fast. I fell stupid. I invested too much too soon. My capacity for giving was matched only by their capacity for taking.

Penny Reid

#5. This tendency to defend a belief structure is true in all cases, even the rational. Never underestimate our ability to convince ourselves of what we wish to be true, especially if we have invested time and money in our beliefs.

Gudjon Bergmann

#6. Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

Stephen Hawking

#7. There was a moment in time where I was really focused on the Navy and I followed through with it - I passed the test. I was happy with myself because I was accomplishing something and I was really working towards a goal. That was the first true thing I invested my energy in.

Kid Cudi

#8. Back in the day as a kid, I was really drawn to the Hulk because it just felt so human and was probably one of the first stories that I felt emotionally invested in and not just thought it was really cool. You really feel for that person and put yourself in that situation.

Cress Williams

#9. To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#10. A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Barbra Streisand

#11. We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.

Jenji Kohan

#12. In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.

Bernie Sanders

#13. I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

David Talbot

#14. I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people - and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.

Azim Premji

#15. Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Lynn Abbey

#16. When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.

Peter Thiel

#17. Sensation invested itself in form and color and radiance, and what his imagination dared, it objectified in some sublimated and magic way. Past, present, and future mingled; and he went on oscillating across the broad, warm world, through

Jack London

#18. I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Nate Silver

#19. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it ...

Phil Jones

#20. You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

#21. For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.

Alice Munro

#22. I have too much money invested in sweaters.

Bob Hope

#23. Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

Oscar Wilde

#24. Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

Regina Brett

#25. Smart people don't learn ... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

Chris Argyris

#26. It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.

Susane Colasanti

#27. You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are

Osho

#28. The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined.

David Ricardo

#29. I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.

Richard Linklater

#30. The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.

Andy Grove

#31. Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are!

Bill Maher

#32. God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

T.D. Jakes

#33. Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.

Oscar Wilde

#34. Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

J. Oswald Sanders

#35. The Buddha would not have liked people to call themselves Buddhist. To him that would have been a fundamental error because there are no fixed identities. He would have thought that someone calling himself a Buddhist has too much invested in calling himself a Buddhist.

Pankaj Mishra

#36. You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

Mike Huckabee

#37. Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

Alan Hirsch

#38. People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.

David Suzuki

#39. Perhaps," Mg. Katter cut in, "she's finally gotten smart. In and out, job done."
Mg. Hughes said, "No. Not her." He paused. "She knows Emery is critical to the syndicate, they all do. He's personally invested in it. That, and she's always kept a . . . keen . . . interest in him.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#40. I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

Yuri Milner

#41. As the Western world has invested every aspect of its waking life with visual order, with procedures and spaces that are uniform, continuous and connected, it has progressively alienated itself from needful involvement in its subconscious life.

Marshall McLuhan

#42. I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.

Claire Danes

#43. In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

Mahatma Gandhi

#44. We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

Albert Bandura

#45. In the growth option, any gain is adjusted in the NAV and money continues to be invested until redeemed.

Jigar Patel

#46. It is true that in general, energy which is aimed at positive factors usually obtains better results than energy invested in resistance!

Iris Eshel

#47. The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

Sienna Miller

#48. Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day.

Paul Hoffman

#49. People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

Gayle Forman

#50. Education is not an expense, but it is the capital ready to be invested.
The return depends on the wisdom you gained.

Debasish Mridha

#51. There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

Mark Zuckerberg

#52. German businesspeople have invested a great deal in our country, and trade is flourishing. We want to speed up economic cooperation. Your country is a large, important provider of aid, and it has done a great deal to reduce the poverty of many Vietnamese.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#53. I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us.

Elizabeth Warren

#54. People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds,

Robert Downey Jr.

#55. After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

Marshall Goldsmith

#56. You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not

Brad Stevens

#57. The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#58. Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.

Ross Macdonald

#59. People want to consume what you're putting out there, and you can create a really strong following of fans and admirers, and people who are invested in your career and your comedy.

Nick Kroll

#60. Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.

Scott Shane

#61. Recently thought of deleting my Facebook account and start using twitter, but realized it's not easy. Facebook has become like the boyfriend I no longer like but scared to dump because I've invested so much time in the relationship.

Manasa Rao

#62. When we first invested in Red Hat, it was thought to be totally insane. When we funded MySQL, it was only partly insane.

Kevin Harvey

#63. My daughter showed us the key: misery gives way to fun when you take an object, event, situation, or scenario that wasn't designed for you, that isn't invested in you, that isn't concerned in the slightest for your experience of it, and then treat it as if it were. ...this is what play means.

Ian Bogost

#64. It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don't change and alter the story because of people who've invested in it and what to put product in a shot.

Michael Berryman

#65. I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

Nathan Fillion

#66. So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.

Mitchell Reiss

#67. I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

Ira Sachs

#68. I suppose the biggest thing I learned is that I'm in it for the right reasons. I love my job as much now as when I first began. I still feel fully invested in every audition, every job - large or small, every appearance, every meeting with every fan.

Steven Blum

#69. But in the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.

Mitt Romney

#70. I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Louis Navellier

#71. The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.

Rebecca Solnit

#72. The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

Abigail Disney