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Where there is too much, something is missing.
If you're not clipping coupons before going to the grocery store, you're overspending. If you're ordering in or going out to dinner because you don't feel like cooking, you're overspending. If you're not tracking where your money is going, you're very likely overspending.
As usual, I overdreamed and underbudgeted. . .
Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once.
Everybody who does anything at all does too much.
my subconscious so full it must spill over
Excess weakens the spirits.
I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.
First, it led to overconsumption, because of what he called the deception of the appetite-control apparatus by the density of the carbohydrates.
Ati sarvatra varjayet. Excess should be avoided; excess of anything is bad.
I'm not overweight. I'm simply overgravitated. Spell-check
I have reached a limit in my work.
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.
Behaviorists tell us that we tend to overweight and overreact to the most recently received information. If we do, we will find that the information that we thought was so important becomes tempered, and reduced in significance, by new and related information that follows.
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.
Too much is unwholesome.
The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.
Eschew surplusage.
When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness.
A male on
the other hand can never get enough copulations with as many
different females as possible: the word excess has no meaning for a
male
Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.
There is in our natures a calamitous hunger for consummation.
The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.
Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
We may overindulge at times, but we then control ourselves and go back to a more moderate diet. There is a mudra that illustrates this situation quite well: "If the animal leaves the flock, I take it back to the flock. If it leaves again, I take it back again." Spiritual
Clutter is evidence of excess.
They who love in excess also hate in excess.
Too much is the same as not enough.
abundance proffered too soon led to lassitude and indolence, a wandering dissatisfaction.
Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
You gotta take care of yourself; you can't do anything in excess.
Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.
Anything in excess is a poison.
Too much brightness blinds the eyes. Too much sound deafens the ears. Too much flavour ruins the tongue. Chasing desires to excess turns your mind towards madness, and valuing precious things impairs good judgment.
Too much study leads to worn out,
Over analysis leads to paralysis
We overeat because there are signals and cues around us that tell us to eat. It's simply not in our nature to pause after every bite and contemplate whether we're full. As we eat, we unknowingly - mindlessly - look for signals or cues that we've had enough.
I overthink a lot of things.
Excess always carries its own retribution.
Never Consume more than you produce.
There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.
Too much ends in smoke.
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat
This lack of self-control I fear is never ending
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
The world of men harbours a morbid condition of overfondness for themselves
It's all too much.
Everything is too much, I felt as I rode wearily after her. Too much blue, too much purple, too much green. The flowers too red, the mountains too high, the hills too near.
Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing ... [We] need ... to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.
Sometimes I try to do too much.-- Delmon Young
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
It is much more a lack of fun which batters us than over abundance and indulgence
Many of our problems come from having too much: rapid technological disruption, junk food, traditions that tell us the way we're supposed to live our lives. We're soft, entitled, and scared of conflict. Great times are great softeners. Abundance can be its own obstacle, as many people can attest.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
I decided excess, even in health, was not good for anyone.
You worry too much."
"Because you worry not enough.
I am just too much.-- Bette Davis
Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.
Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.
It's far better to do less and do it well,
than to do too much and do it poorly.
Sometimes you have to push yourself away from the table and say, "I'm full.
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.
Everything seems excessive, now, and too intense, too important.
I have composed too much.
Overwork is this decade's cocaine, the problem without a name," says Bryan Robinson, who has written widely about the phenomenon and estimates that as many as 25 percent of Americans have the addiction.
If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.
The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.
I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.
I had to pace my consumption cannily, because each time I finished what was in my bowl, someone would immediately fill it up with something else. "Eat more," they would say. "Eat more pig's ear!
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.
Don't let the excess of demand make you loose your command and get you further from what you've planned.
My closet was full, yet I was always focused on the sweater I didn't have, or on the next pair of boots. I wasn't allowing myself to take in what I had. I could never experience what "enough" was.
In those times we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.
When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland ...
The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part.
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.
I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.
when you have something important to do, if there are two of you, you have one too many.
I'm an over-packer 100 percent. I can't do it; I physically can't under-pack.
I've always had a passion for life and I think that translated into a bit of overindulgence. What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't like.
Nothing exceeds like excess.
Do not overeat; that invites disease.
A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
Too much engenders too much.
Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.
As many suffer from too much as too little.
I'm not at all overextended ... I'm very, very hands-on.
It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.
We need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments
Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm.
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged ...
When you eat too much chocolate, you get sick of it.
When you drink too much champagne, you get sick of it.
Gorge yourself on fear.
Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.