Quotes & Sayings About Not Overdoing Things

A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil. — Swami Vivekananda

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing. — Nile Rodgers

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

Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. — Robert A. Heinlein

Flashed one of those grins of his which always made people think he'd been overdoing things recently and should try to get some rest. — Douglas Adams

We are generally very driven and have a high need to be needed or approved of, or special. We often show a pattern of overdoing and overgiving without regard for ourselves. — Dina Glouberman

I don't believe in overdoing myself. — Jennifer Hudson

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it. — Elizabeth Enright

There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys
prosecution and defense
dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at. — Michael Connelly

The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing. — William Hazlitt

We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it. — Stephen Kuusisto

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing. — Steven Tyler

The bishop escorted Francis a short distance out into the courtyard. Bending over, he said to him in a hushed voice, "careful Francis. You're overdoing it."
"That's how one finds God, Bishop." Francis answered.
The bishop shook his head. "Even virtue needs moderation; otherwise it can become arrogance."
"Man stands within the bounds of moderation; God stands outside them. I am heading for God, Bishop." said Francis, and he proceeded hastily towards the street door. He had no time to lose. — Nikos Kazantzakis

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone! — Henry S. Haskins

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Are you overdone yet? — Charlotte Henley Babb

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long) — Robert A. Heinlein

The guard, clearly overdoing it with the steroids, had a head that looked like two old crisps taped to an Easter egg. There — Paul Mitchell

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things — Simone De Beauvoir

When she did walk, to the bathroom between the chairs and the customers leaning back in them, oblivious to her manoeuvres, the sight felt strangely moving and profound, like a baby, or a veteran getting out of a wheelchair, or a deer in snow. That is perhaps overdoing it. Maybe I didn't quite know that at the time, but it was striking. If you have not seen a deer in snow, I mean: moving with precision, but as if she might leap away in a completely different direction at any moment. — Olivia Sudjic

The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough. — Frank Pittman

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. — Ayn Rand

Bekka treated her role has Frankenstein's bride more like an audition to be Brett's bride. Every part of her body had been colored bright kelly green - even parts that her mother had stressed were 'not to be seen by anyone except God and the inside of a toilet bowl.' Instead of wearing a wig, Bekka had teased and then shellacked her own hair into a windblown cone and she'd used female-mustache bleach to create white streaks. Her seams, made of real suture thread, had been attached to her neck and wrists with clear double-sided costume tape because drawing them on with kohl would not have been 'honoring the character.' Her Costume Castle dress had been exchanged for something 'more authentic' from the Bridal Barn. If Brett didn't see his future in her heavily black-shadowed eyes tonight, he never would. Or so she believed. — Lisi Harrison

C-3PO thought they were overdoing protocol? That was a very bad sign. — Claudia Gray

Some people don't understand that but it's nice when it really just gets to the point then that it [music] doesn't get played so much that you're overdoing a lot of things; that it's fresh ideas. And they come out fresh and if you're already in the mode, I guess, to simplify some things so that it comes across better on record, it's the right time to be tasteful with somethin'. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

What a reflection on yourself to despise those who admire you! That said, one's usually of two minds: 1. You're ludicrously overdoing it; 2. You don't know the half of it. — Eva Brann

We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well. — Jason Biggs

If it's worth doing, I guess it's worth overdoing. — James Rollins

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. - Josh Jenkins — Anonymous

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

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