Top 21 Overshoot Quotes
#1. People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
Dolly Parton
#2. The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
Ben Bernanke
#3. If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.
Brad Bird
#4. So I decide to overshoot his estimation of my insanity and show him how little he really understands the psychology of Reds. Today I lead the Pax on a suicide mission into the heart of his fleet.
Pierce Brown
#5. Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.
Scott Stossel
#6. The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.
Hilary Mantel
#7. My word processor has spell-check capability, which lets me add words that didn't originally come in its comprehensive dictionary. It's interesting to see what words I had to add when writing this book: feedback, throughput, overshoot, self-organization, sustainability.
Donella H. Meadows
#8. There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips.
Hermann Buhl
#9. You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.
Helen Thomas
#10. If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.
Edmund Hillary
#11. My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.
Gia Coppola
#12. Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.
Simon Van Der Meer
#13. It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
Plato
#14. I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
Humphry Davy
#15. You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.
Robert Ludlum
#16. If you want a great site, you've got to test. After you've worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can't see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it.
Steve Krug
#18. When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.
Judy Gold
#19. Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
Mary Gaitskill
#20. It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.
Enzo Ferrari
#21. If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.
Homaro Cantu
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