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The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

— Paul Hogan

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

— Aesop

I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.

— Jim Messina

I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.

— Deborah Moggach

Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it's all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing.

— Mary Roach

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

— Betty Cuthbert

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

— Abraham Lincoln

✗Opposing Perspectives

When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.

— Kris Carr

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

— Ozzy Osbourne

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

— A. J. Jacobs

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

— Lesley Gore