Over-commitment Quotes

U. S. foreign policy in the 20th century was characterized by disastrous oscillations between over-commitment and isolation

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

I think, at some point in my wrestling career, I took myself way too seriously, and I took the wrestling business way too seriously. It probably helped sour me on the whole process. It probably helped burn me out.

If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.

I'm a yes person. I'm too concerned with trying to make too many people happy.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

Those who apply themselves too much to little things often become incapable of great ones

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

I made the mistake of pouring my entire identity into one single dream and convincing myself that I was not capable of anything else or creating any other dream.

People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.

If you make one thing your life and soul - as much as football is my career and main focus - then it turns into a very mentally unstable place to be.