Overrated Quotes - Page 9

• You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Brain

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• I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee. Stirring clockwise to conjure. Widdershins to banish. There’s never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated. Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose. I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Coffee, Circles, Enough Time

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• The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it's personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed.

  Lela Rose

  Ubiquity, Oil, Fans

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• Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.

  Criss Jami

  Hate, Men, Differences

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.113, Criss Jami

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• Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference." I frowned. "There's...a law of conservation of history?

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, Law, Quality

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• It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Perfect, Tvs

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• Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Inspiration, Clouds

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  War, Spine, Ran

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• Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Perfection, Imperfection, Underrated

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• You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.

  Greg Behrendt

  Faith, Space, Dating

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• Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

  Dani Shapiro

  Struggle, Creating, Literature

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• Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

  Wim Wenders

  Wise, Pride, Cutting

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• I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

  Kevin Costner

  Sweet, Morning, Believe

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• I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Way, Computer

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• If this was love, love had been overrated.

  Henry James

  Ifs

  Henry James (2016). “The Europeans: American Literature”, p.98, 谷月社

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• Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

  Adam Carolla

  Jobs, Believe, Doors

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• Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

  William Shatner

  Icons, Remember, Mice

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• If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too.
  I have no interest in living a balanced life.
  I want a life of adventure.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Writing, Self

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• Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Gone Love, Wind, Land

  Gone with theWind pt. 1, ch. 2 (1936)

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• I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Past, Expectations, Great Expectations

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• To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Bridges, Troll

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted'" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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• ...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Regret, Godly

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• I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

  Mordecai Richler

  Doctors, Essence, Problem

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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