Excessiveness Quotes:

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

- Plato

topic: Plato, Opposites, Causes, Excessiveness, Action And Reaction

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

- Plato

topic: Plato, Ignorance, Evil, Excessiveness

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

- William Blake

source: William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.202, Delphi Classics

topic: Sympathy, Artist, Laughing, Words Of Sympathy, Excessiveness

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book One, Chapter V, 1840.

topic: Business, Equality, Men, Excessiveness

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

- Brian Weiss

topic: Simplicity, Action, Tendencies, Diminish, Excessiveness

The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

- Ajahn Amaro

topic: Cutting, Thinking, Listening, Excessiveness, Thinking Too Much

My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.

- Emma Stone

source: "The Really Amazing Spider-Man 2 Star Emma Stone On Tuning Out The Haters And Owning Who You Are". Interview with Brittany Burke, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2014.

topic: Hope, Kindness, Women, Fatness, Young Women

Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable.

- Lilian Katz

topic: Children, Self Esteem, Support, Excessiveness

When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic.

- Choa Kok Sui

topic: Soul, Energy, Filled, Excessiveness, Vindictiveness

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

- Harvey Cushing

topic: Greatness, Elements, Certain, Excessiveness

Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me.

- Sufjan Stevens

source: Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

topic: Real, Thinking, Drug, Obsessive Compulsive, Overstimulation

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

- Lucinda Williams

topic: Trying, Excessiveness

I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,

- Blaize Clement

topic: Amish, Excessiveness

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Love, Jealousy, Being Jealous, Excessiveness

You know, making fun of the excessiveness and the priorities that are most stilted out here which does make it difficult to have a very sort of grounded, normal life because there's really nothing normal about Hollywood.

- Debra Messing

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Fun, Priorities, Hollywood, Excessiveness

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

- Rene Descartes

topic: Passion, Love Is, Two, Excessiveness, Abhorrence