Top 86 Most Overrated Quotes
#1. You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.
Woody Allen
#2. The Stones are not the world's greatest band. Not even the world's second greatest band. What they are is the world's most overrated band. And it wasn't Keith or Mick who wrote "Wild Horses". It was Gram Parsons.
Jo Nesbo
#3. Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.
Tom Rachman
#5. Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
Sydney J. Harris
#6. The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
Ina Garten
#7. Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed - in view of the overall shortage of time - by patience.
Christopher Hitchens
#8. The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
Orson Welles
#9. Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,
David Remnick
#10. New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
Andy Rooney
#11. I don't mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.
Michael Chabon
#12. What is the most overrated skill for an entrepreneur? The most overrated skill is skill. Luck is more important. The entrepreneur gets credit for being this genius, when really he was just at the right place at the right time.
Ken Hendricks
#13. My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life.
Pat Conroy
#14. Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.
Erma Bombeck
#15. Self-awareness is the most overrated trick in the book. More than ambition, more than free will, more than getting on to the property ladder early. Right now I should be at the Little Hills, you probably just call them the Hills, right?
David Louden
#16. Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
Wendell Berry
#17. Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues ... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
Malcolm Gladwell
#18. Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
Robert Anton Wilson
#19. Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.
Anthony Burgess
#21. Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.
Rob Lowe
#22. The element of surprise is vastly overrated in any relationship.
Molly Harper
#23. How long someone's been doing it is overrated. What matters is how well they've been doing it.
Jason Fried
#24. There are some days when I, myself , think I'm overrated
Meryl Streep
#25. Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.
Mason Cooley
#26. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
Tina Fey
#27. And I know [other] faces aren't this colorful, this vivid, this lived-in, this superbly off-site, this brimming with dark unpredictable music. NOT THAT I EFFING NOTICE ... For the record, breathing is overrated.
Jandy Nelson
#29. You sure you okay?" he asked.
this time she decided to go for the truth. "No. But 'okay' is overrated.
C.C. Hunter
#30. Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
Ellen Glasgow
#31. The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.
Karl Pilkington
#32. Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
Nick Cave
#33. It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.
Tahereh Mafi
#34. Being dead is highly overrated. It's no fun at all.
Mythe: A Fairy Tale
P.J. Gordon
#35. I think walks are overrated unless you can run ... If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps. But the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time they're clogging up the bases for somebody who can run.
Dusty Baker
#36. Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high.
Alexander Khalifman
#37. According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.
Cammie McGovern
#38. Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
Barbara Corcoran
#39. I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
Donald Trump
#40. I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.
Deidre Hall
#41. Affection as medicine is highly overrated ... a person who is as sick with depression as I most certainly was cannot possibly be rescued through the power of anyone's love.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#42. I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.
Chuck Close
#43. Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.
Beth Gibbons
#44. He never had been good at going without sex. Previously, there had
never been a need to. Nearly nine weeks into the celibate lifestyle,
and he found it as overrated as getting shot had been.
Kylie Scott
#46. Single life is so overrated. It sucks.
Rihanna
#48. Holding hands in love is underrated, while sex is overrated. Don't you think so?
Kiran Joshi
#49. You live like this long enough, a life without chances, you lose your bearings. A life without danger. A life without the risk of Now. In any event, what do I need with Now? Now, I think, is overrated. Now hasn't been working out so great for me. Now never has.
Charles Yu
#51. Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.
Gerry Lindgren
#52. Being in love is highly overrated.
book: stuff i think about
Sondra Faye
#53. Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else.
John Steinbeck
#54. Single life is so overrated.
Rihanna
#55. I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated.
Ian Somerhalder
#56. Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else BY GEOFF COLVIN
Daniel H. Pink
#57. I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
Stephen Colbert
#58. Go to hell," he said, but there was a desolate fear in his eyes and I couldn't look away.
"Been there. Trust me. It's so overrated.
Melina Marchetta
#59. Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.
Ernest Gellner
#60. I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
Paloma Faith
#61. 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
#63. When I was younger I used to think that band-aids did all the work. I mean after all, it binds your wound together and makes everything better back to the way it was. But then I became an adult and started to fall in love,fvi and I realize that band-aids are so overrated lol.
Onee'sha Ford
#65. I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time ... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!
Marc Jacobs
#66. I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.
Don Van Vliet
#67. This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it's got a limited chance of making its way into your brain's hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.
Michael Bungay Stanier
#68. I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'
Jaime Camil
#69. In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#70. If growing up means not seeing one's family and friends on the regular - all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#71. Life direct ... is what Flaubert and Joyce have convinced themselves the man may never get quite clear of but the artist has nothing to do with. What they can't admit is that t is overrated: which artists, faking and fumbling it together out of spit and toothpicks, should know best of all.
Marvin Mudrick
#73. You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.
Sarah Dessen
#74. I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.
Mark Nepo
#75. Faith is underrated. Paradoxically, religion is vastly overrated.
Seth Godin
#76. Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know.
Harriet Rubin
#77. Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.
Barry Ritholtz
#78. The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.
Aleister Crowley
#79. Love is painful, pointless and overrated.
L.J.Smith
#80. 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
#82. Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.
Dennis Rodman
#83. Immortality is overrated, living for an eternity would get really old.
Ray William Johnson
#85. love is nothing but an overrated emotion that brings nothing but pain to those unfortunate enough to suffer from it.
Carole Mortimer
#86. That's exactly the good thing about the Injun life
you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'
which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks
Jim Fergus
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