Overreaction Quotes

• Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

  Stephen Covey

  Disappointment, Winning, People

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

  Albert Ellis

  Strong, Feelings, Fine

  Albert Ellis, Arthur Lange (2016). “How To Keep People From Pushing Your Buttons”, p.28, Citadel

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• Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

  Fred Barnes

  Thinking, Political, Doe

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• When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Change, Strong Women, Silly

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• The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

  Seth Klarman

  Intelligent, Stories, Investing

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• Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security, so we're gonna do it". You can't live that way and the United States doesn't need to do it, it shouldn't do it, and I think a Democratic administration, whoever the democratic president is, will repudiate that kind of conduct. I think it was an overreaction caused by a lot of different strains of thought in the administration. I think it was clearly wrong and I think that repudiation, which will come from the United States, will be a key in restoring America's legitimacy.

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, America, Keys

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.

  Alice Neel

  Art, Drawing, People

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• I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

  Marc Rich

  Country, New York, People

  "Glencore IPO Pushes Ex-Fugitive Billionaire Marc Rich Out Of The Shadows" by Clare O'Connor, www.forbes.com. May 23, 2011.

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