Over-Reliance Quotes

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

I have a tendency to make my partner my everything and that is unfair and it doesn't end up working out because you can't rely on that one person to fulfill all of your needs emotionally.

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

That's all we had when I was a kid: Robitussin. No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it. "Daddy, I got asthma." "Robitussin." "I got cancer." "Robitussin." "I broke my leg." Daddy poured Robitussin on it. "Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get in there. Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get on down to the bone. The 'tussin ought to straighten out the bone."

Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.

When you put all your eggs in one basket, you've got a problem.

When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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.

I think, at the end of the game, guys gotta trust themselves more. I think sometimes - not myself, but sometimes, guys - they look to Kobe too much.

Problems arise when we go through life relying too much or too little on particular traits, which, in turn, can lead to a crisis.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Everybody loves me so much, they just want to carry me around. Sometimes I think to myself, 'When am I going to stand, because I'm being carried all day?'

The biggest mistake is an over-reliance on data. Managers will say if there are no data they can take no action. However, data only exist about the past. By the time data become conclusive, it is too late to take actions based on those conclusions.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.

Anything you rely on can become a crutch. And disabled or not, when you rely on something, that is what will cripple you.