Quotes About Overabundance

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

A treat cannot possibly have the same meaning in an era where white-flour cakes are everywhere and candy canes are sold by the dozen for less than the price of a loaf of bread.

If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.

seemed that the DIY ethos that gave birth to the indie rock movement was threatening to become its undoing. Now everyone was doing it themselves—and a lot of it was mediocre. And like an oversize herd of deer, there was simply too much of it for all to thrive.

I'll tell you, what the world doesn't need is another Joe Bonamassa DVD.

for as long as he had lived, everything had been provided for him. Answers to his questions, entertainment to sate his whims. Almost by accident, he had become a glutton.

Nothing doth sooner breed a distaste or satiety than plenty.

Human imagination is a powerful thing. It can be a sanctuary from difficult times, a catalyst to change society, or the impetus to create marvelous works of art. On the other hand, an overabundance of imagination can inspire paranoia that impairs one's ability to interact with reality. —Suk School Manual, Psychological Studies

The problem with information is not that it is diverting and generally useless, but that it is toxic.

A very rarely discussed property of data: it is toxic in large quantities

More companies die from indigestion than starvation.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

supererogation.

Done because we are too menny.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

Upper-class Victorians feared an overabundance of passion, believing it only complicated matters and, more dangerously, led to thoughts of unrealistic liaisons between persons of unequal social stations.

But heaven knows there are enough policemen about. They're like a plague of cockroaches. You can't move without stepping on them.

were spoiling

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

It sometimes feels as if we have temporarily solved the problem of scarcity and replaced it with the problem of excess.