Knowing When To Stop Quotes

“If one overshoots the goal, one cannot hit it. If a bird will not come to its nest but flies higher and higher, it eventually falls into the hunter's net. He who in times of extraordinary salience of small things does not know how to call a halt, but restlessly seeks to press on and on, draws upon himself misfortune at the hands of gods and men, because he deviates from the order of nature.”
― Fu Hsi, The I Ching or Book of Changes

“For most people, most of the time,
drilling deeper isn’t going to actually make much of a difference.”
― Greg Nuckols, The Art of Lifting