Overburdening Quotes

If everything is very important, then nothing is important.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

I always have a tendency to take on too many things.

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

I hate bags. I never carry a bag. I am terrified of bags. I don't want to have to be responsible for that many things at one time.

My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I have learned one thing in my life: If I put too much pressure on myself, then everything goes wrong.

I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning.

Limitless enlargement of Europe means the death of political Europe.

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

I want to do everything. That's my problem.

If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.

If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

I feel like people put pressure on me, and that makes me put pressure on myself, which isn't needed.

In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

The expectations some Americans put on me is too much, is what I would say. But I don't take it that way. I know no one means harm to me like that or wanting to put too much pressure on me.