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“It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.”

Ifs Knows Giving Children Hard Feelings Lasts Forget Too Much Security Treats Our Children Wounds Your Children Never Forget

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.”

Knows Giving Art Said Enough Wish Causes Too Much Conversation Inattention

Author:Samuel Richardson

“When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.”

Thinking Want Needs Giving Littles Facts Too Much Compliment Embarrassed Want U Much Love

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.”

Ifs Giving Years Wells Littles Made Care Age Young Sides Too Much Air Fine Fit Clothes Reflection Twenties Dresses Fellows Take Care Fifty Forty Excess Awkward Stink Fifty Year Olds

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“...the waiter has to come from a place of concentration, subjugation, and complete, limitless service. Nothing is too much trouble. The customer is always right, even when he is wrong. There is no limit to what you will do to serve while that person is in your bar and in your care.”

Giving Persons Care Too Much Trouble Limits Customers Bars Concentration Limitless Waiter Subjugation

Book:The Trick to Money is Having Some

Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some

“Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.”

Knows Giving Names Knowledge Too Much Fame

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost

“Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.”

Giving Games Causes Too Much Advice Balls Increase Score Pushing Pulling Giving Advice Tilt New Directions Pinball

Book:Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning

Source: Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning

“Oddly, though, lists are reassuring. We become aware of this if we scrupulously follow a recipe, which is essentially a list of ingredients and actions; but if we give this 'list' too much importance, we leave no room for the imagination.”

Ifs Giving Action Imagination Rooms Too Much Importance Lists Ingredients Recipes Reassuring

Author:Jean-Claude Ellena

“As a designer and someone that likes getting my hands dirty, it's hard. It's a competition. I can't give too much away. One thing I could do was offer encouraging words.”

Giving I Can Hard Hands Too Much One Thing Offers Competition Likes Dirty Designer Encouraging Words

Author:David Bromstad

“I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually.”

Thinking Giving Bigs Jobs Break Too Much Nervous More Time

Author:Meryl Streep

“We don't always get everything. And sometimes we worry too much about our circumstances. We think oh I'll be happy when I get my job back, or I'll be happy when I get a man back, but it's really about allowing God to give us joy now.”

Thinking Men Giving Sometimes Jobs Joy Worry Too Much Circumstances Allowing

Author:Bonnie St. John

“Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.”

Ifs Giving Play Problem Film Actors Sound Sides Rooms Powerful Audience Too Much Huge Conversation Give Me Add Editing Toolbox

Author:Dave McKean

“People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."”

People Giving I Can Technology Too Much Giving Up Computer Radio Analysis Personal Computers

Author:Chellis Glendinning

“I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.”

Want Giving Trying Character Understanding Answers Secret Too Much Connections Tables I Want You

Author:Nicolas Cage

“They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.”

Giving Ends Would Be Care Turns Winning Too Much Nice Expectations Give Me Luck Don't Care Honestly Being Nice Oscars Sincerely Bad Luck

Author:Robert Altman

“Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.”

Want Giving Brain Too Much Make Sense

Author:Steve McQueen

“I'm not one of those actors who likes to analyze things too much, so I trust what the writers are doing with the characters, in order to give them their journey. My job is to come in and try to make those words on the page come alive on camera.”

Giving Trying Character Jobs Order Actors Too Much Alive Journey Pages Cameras Likes

Author:John Barrowman

“I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.”

Ifs Knows Needs Giving Mean Too Much Sweat

Author:T. D. Jakes

“Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.”

People Giving Years Firsts Believe May Art Care Certain Literature I Believe Sound Sides Knowing Successful Too Much Strange Serious Freeze Dealer Caring Too Much Love Literature

Author:Andy Warhol

“The model we established was to give creative people complete creative freedom in exchange for betting on themselves, so they work for the minimums you're allowed to work for, and if the movies work in a big way, everyone does very well. If the movies don't, nobody loses too much money. The benefit to doing all the movies low budget is we can tell different types of stories and take creative risks. The Purge would have been irresponsible to do for $20M, but to do it for $3M makes sense.”

“People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out.”

People Giving Care Results Too Much Judging Giving Up Opposites I Care

Author:Greg Maddux

“There are so many rappers now that it's cluttering our culture. 90% of the time at a show there are more artists in the crowd than there are fans - it's too much. Too many people try to give you CD's.”

People Giving Trying Shows Artist Culture Too Much Fans Crowds Rapper Cds

Author:Statik Selektah

“I asked Shia: who is the guy that terrifies you the most? And he said Mads. So it was somebody we both really wanted to work with. He's intimidating, but has a really big heart and he's sexy. He's got this sexiness, even guys fall for him. He just penetrates everything-not literally. So we needed a brokenhearted thug that could really give us the heartache. And going between the violence and viciousness and the complete softness without making it too much. A lot of those characters can go into a charade, and I needed it to be genuine heartbrokenness and that's what he's great at doing.”

Giving Heart Said Character Bigs Wanted Guy Fall Too Much Violence Needed Sexy Genuine Heartache Penetrate Intimidating Thug Softness Sexiness Big Heart Shia Charades Brokenhearted

Author:Fredrik Bond

“Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.”

Giving Should Children Play Games Justice Too Much Rights Taught Fairs Property Credit Appeals Nursery Respect Each Other

Book:Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“Do not expect too much from the world. We are here to give not to take.”

World Giving Too Much

Author:Shri Radhe Maa

“It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.”

Giving States Would Be Easy Democracy Too Much Despair Giving Up Journalism Stakes Giving Up Is Not An Option American Democracy

Author:Laurie Garrett

“My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.”

Giving Sometimes Enough Asks Fun Simple Too Much Students Definitions Damn Fundamentalist

Author:Bart D. Ehrman

“I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money.”

Thinking Giving Children Today Too Much Wind Silly Blowing It

Author:Wolfman Jack

“I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.”

Giving Ideas Too Much Universality

Author:Rirkrit Tiravanija

“In the book, D'Artagnan doesn't actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end, and we make quite a big thing about that. I won't give too much away, but when he finally does make it, they're not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.”

Giving Doe Book Ends Bigs Easy Too Much Officials Big Things Never Change Musketeers

Author:Adrian Hodges

“Now clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any help, it knows too much already.”

Knows Giving Mind Helping Clear Too Much Scare

Author:Zelda Rubinstein

“Listen Jesus to the warning I give. Please remember that I want us to live. But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour. All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds. It was beautiful, but now it's sour. Yes, it's all gone sour.”

Want Giving Mind Beautiful Remember Jesus Heaven Hours Chance Gone Too Much Please Blind Followers Warning Want U Sour Weakening

Author:Tim Rice

“If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.”

Ifs Giving I Can Too Much Give Me Credit Pursuit Definite Persevere Biographers Describe Me

Author:William Carey

“We spoke to God about the children, and we were afraid to ask God for specific things. We thought that it might be too much. So we said to God 'Please give us a healthy child' and left it at that, not knowing that God is a generous God, but also has a sense of humor. And if you leave that much open for God, some wonderful jokes are going to come about.”

Ifs Giving Children Said Might Asks Left Knowing Too Much Wonderful Please Healthy Jokes Generous Spokes Sense Of Humor Not Knowing Healthy Children

Author:Bill Cosby

“I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition or anything like that - Warrenhas always been very open about what he's learned, and I share that ethos. My personal behavior model is Lord Keynes: I wanted to get rich so I could be independent, and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. I didn't want to turn it into a total obsession.”

“I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?”

People Giving House Walks Too Much Brown Crystals Grinning

Author:Kimora Lee Simmons

“You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.”

Giving Littles Attention Too Much Devil

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I don't like flirting, and when I love someone, I always give everything, maybe too much. And then you have to work at it all the time. I mean, the first months are always great, but afterwards it becomes hard work. It's not as passionate and crazy.”

Giving Firsts Mean Hard Too Much Crazy Hard Work Months Passionate Working It Flirting Love Someone

Author:Eva Green

“Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.”

Giving Sometimes Enough Too Much Involved

Author:Dusty Springfield

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