Saying Too Much Quotes

• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it.

  Moyra Davey

  Distance, Mean, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life, Mean, Littles

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• I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

  Gil Gerard

  Want, Superstitions, Disappear

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• Even though Prince wasn't rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.

  Tyga

  Art, Real, Rap

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you think you've found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don't normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to.

  Philip Roth

  Kids, Boys, Thinking

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.

  Simone Weil

  Country, Thinking, Men

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  First Love, Letters, Littles

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.232

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• Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Men, Thinking, Remains

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