Overboard Quotes

• A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

  Dawn Powell

  Mind, Capacity

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  Dana Hill

  Hurt, Teenage, Years

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• I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

  Will Wright

  Research, Projects, New Projects

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• Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

  James A. Garfield

  Swimming, Men, Nine

  "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and education. Hiram college memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 331, 1882.

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• You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

  Suzanne Somers

  Mean, Long, Littles

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• Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Men, Air

  Quoted in Sierra, 10 Sept. 1980

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• We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

  Freddie Mercury

  Queens, Albums, Gone

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• You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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• Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior.

  Henry Cloud

  Children, Character, Parenting

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2009). “Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.115, Zondervan

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• I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Selfish, Simple

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1997.

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• Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

  Mark Twain

  One Direction, Reform

  Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.171, Univ of California Press

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• Don't go overboard with too many accessories and too many different things.

  Freja Beha Erichsen

  Different, Accessories, Different Things

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status – that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Real, Night, Play

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• The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

  W. H. Auden

  Mother, Heart, Sleep

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• The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

  Thomas John Barnardo

  Sea, Way, Tomorrow

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• Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Bridges, Cities, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Ego, Energy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2790, Manonmani Publishers

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• These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.

  Cary Cooper

  Reality, People, Way

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• My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

  Emanuel Celler

  Girl, Grandmother, Catholic

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• It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard.

  Alexandra Roach

  Effort, Important, Killing Yourself

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• How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

  Pat McBride

  Fall, Color, Perspective

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• You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

  Grace Hopper

  People, Management, Manage

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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• I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Swim, Grace, Glory

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].”, p.344

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• Hire prudently, go slow and don’t go overboard.

  Lori Greiner

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• When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."

  Russell M. Nelson

  Priorities, Helping, Endure

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