Excessive Effort Quotes

I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.

I can't stand people who try too hard.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing

I do tend to overdo everything.

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.

How to fail: Try too hard.

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.

If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high.

It is very important not to try too hard because in the past I think I have done that.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

I start everything 25 times over.

The more you press, the more you try to make something more than it needs to be, you probably end up misfiring.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

Perfection, to me, means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.