Do Not Overuse Quotes

#1. Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.

Tom Hodgkinson

#2. Some would have doubted their sanity at this point, but by now the part of my mind that issued doubts about my sanity had melted from overuse.

David Wong

#3. At this moment, glyphosate is the biggest threat. And because of its overuse, we are seeing the emergence of superweeds, which have grown resistant to glyphosate. This has led to biotech corporations developing even more toxic herbicides, including 2,4-D, one of the main components of Agent Orange.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#4. In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

Frederick Lenz

#5. People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.

Chip Heath

#6. One of the tricks of being a good teacher, he'd learned, was not to overuse the Look.

Peter Clines

#7. This may account for Americans' overuse of the courts as a means of finding coherence and stability. As other institutions become unusable as mechanisms for the control of wanton information, the courts stand as a final arbiter of truth. For how long, no one knows. I

Neil Postman

#8. You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence.

Alain De Botton

#9. I sometimes wonder if I'm built from old videotape. I feel archaic, worn from overuse and increasingly obscure. One day I'll get caught up in the grinding wheels of my own life and unravel.

David Thomas Moore

#10. Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb can be exactly what a sentence needs. They can add important intonation to dialogue, or subtly convey information.

Howard Mittelmark

#11. Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

Tim Ferriss

#12. A vice is a thing which may be applauded in moderation but becomes horrific in overuse.

Graham Moore

#13. When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.

Al Michaels

#14. Be a best friend. Tell the truth. Overuse 'I love you'.

Lee Brice

#15. Avoid overuse of 'quotation "marks."'

William Safire

#16. Honestly, depending on what stage I'm at in my life, my opinion on plastic surgery changes. I've never been against plastic surgery - I'm against bad plastic surgery. I'm against the overuse of plastic surgery.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#17. I'm not sure if you've noticed this yet, but Jenny Sullivan likes to overuse people's first names. It's a technique she read about in a book called Own It - Take Life By The Bollocks. She once said my name so many times I disconnected from it entirely.

Claire Garber

#18. I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape ... . If you read for escape you will never try to change your life, or anyone else's. It's a politically barren act, if nothing else. The overuse of imaginative fiction enables people to avoid the knowledge that they are actually alive.

M. John Harrison

#20. Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital births introduces risks or the home environment promotes problem-free labors.

Henci Goer

#21. This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.

Elizabeth Scott

#22. Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.

Denis Waitley

#23. I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down.

Anne Waldman

#24. that in modern life we overuse the "fight, flight, or freeze" response, because we respond to many situations as if they are life-threatening when they are not. As a result, our nervous systems don't have time to recover, because we are activating this response too frequently.

Linda Lantieri

#25. With affluence come the debased gifts born of abuse, misuse, and overuse.

John Zande

#26. My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind

Tana French

#27. My shame circuits burned out from overuse years ago.

David Wong

#28. It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.

Abigail Brown

#29. Love' was a word I had cheapened with overuse over the years, bleeding it dry of meaning by saying it purely from force of habit, or to convince myself of something of which I was far from sure. I wanted to wait until the words started to feel meaningful again before I used them.

Catherine Sanderson

#30. The overuse of prescription drugs provides a vacation from personal responsibility.

Bruce H. Lipton