Top 22 Overcompensate Quotes
#1. See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.
Frederick Lenz
#2. A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.
Jonathan Ames
#3. The funny thing is I'm actually really insecure. I have a lot of girl issues - 'I'm not pretty enough,' 'I'm not skinny enough' - but there is a confidence I have in what I can do. I did tend to overcompensate to cover up other insecurities that I have.
Lindsay Pearce
#4. Never assume you are not attractive enough, and therefore you have to overcompensate or chase a man. Taste is subjective.
Sherry Argov
#5. Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to overcompensate for what we believe to be our deepest flaws. What persona are you hiding behind?
Debbie Ford
#6. No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.
Sonam Kapoor
#7. I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
Becki Newton
#8. If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.
Joel Fuhrman
#9. You always have guilt as a working mum, and you overcompensate by buying them loads of things. That was what I was doing, anyway. I've kind of realised now that I'm the best mum that I can be.
Rebecca Ferguson
#10. Famous people scare me. I get really nervous around famous people ... I overcompensate (with) how unimpressed I am, which is completely and utter rubbish. So I'm a fan.
Andrew Garfield
#11. I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'
Serena Williams
#12. We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.
Shakti Gawain
#13. I think that some people from other regions expect us to be like that so I think they overcompensate for that sometimes and they're victims to their own insecurity.
Immortal Technique
#14. about the biology of stress and recovery, stress seems to have an effect on the brain similar to that of vaccines on the immune system. In limited doses, it causes brain cells to overcompensate and thus gird themselves against future demands. Neuroscientists call this phenomenon stress inoculation.
John J. Ratey
#15. I have fears, but I do not fear anything or anybody on the court.
Russell Westbrook
#17. I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs.
Enrique Iglesias
#18. The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.
Rush Limbaugh
#20. The classical anthropological question, What is man? - "how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!" - is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropology and then forget the whole topic and go on to Culture.
Paul Goodman
#21. Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness.
Marquis De Sade
