Overdoing It Quotes

• To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

  Josh Jenkins

  Funny, Mistake, Humans

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• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Lakes, Sea

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• Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

  David Letterman

  Action, Sometimes

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• The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

  Timothy Geithner

  Mistake, Choices, Easier

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• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  Zane Grey

  Appreciation, Thinking, Connected

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• If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

  Nile Rodgers

  Ifs

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• Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Cooking, Kingdoms

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• Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Appreciation

  Goodness Had Nothing to DoWith It ch. 21 (1959)

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• I wish I were better at straightforward description. I feel like I'm usually overdoing it or underdoing it, and it takes a lot of tweaking to get the details right.

  Lauren Grodstein

  Wish, Details, Description

  Source: www.salon.com

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• One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Leader, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well if I had my choice I would not - I wouldn't mind working with Alec Baldwin, but the mother role - I'm kidding. It's terrific. I'll tell you what happened with Alec Baldwin and myself. This is a couple acting together just this side of heaven. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with in whole life. And I - I'm not overdoing it. I just think he's about the best around today. So I got lucky.

  Elaine Stritch

  Mother, Couple, Thinking

  "Elaine Stritch Talks the 30 Rock Mother's Day Episode". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. May 6, 2010.

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• We killed 6 innocent people, launching 22, I think $3 million apiece missiles on Baghdad...that's a little bit overdoing it.

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, People, Baghdad

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• The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Latin, School

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• I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.

  George Saunders

  Technology, Phones, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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