Overvalue Quotes

#1. Many of us overvalue autonomy, the strength to stand alone, the capacity to act independently. Far too few of us pay attention to the virtues of dependence and interdependence, and especially to the capacity to be vulnerable.

William Sloane Coffin

#2. Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

Richard Baxter

#3. Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.

Cornelia Funke

#4. People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful.

Joel Spolsky

#5. Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.

Hill Harper

#6. Companies consistently overvalue relevant experience when judging senior candidates. They should be more focused on what talented smart creatives have to offer.

Anonymous

#7. I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don't mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.

Colin Farrell

#8. Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage ... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.

E.D. Baker

#10. Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.

J.M. Coetzee

#11. Al Gore didn't need to distance himself from Bill Clinton when he ran for president in 2000 because, when he ran, the country was in very good shape: strong economically and not at war. He did it anyway, and it was, in many people's estimate, mine included, one of the reasons he lost.

Susan Estrich

#12. To overvalue something is a form of lying.

Baltasar Gracian

#13. Too many investors overvalue companies in the near term while undervaluing them in the long term.

Jay Samit

#14. A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

Phyllis Bottome

#15. And thus the journey ended. But the travelers lived on.

Roald Dahl

#16. In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

Simone Weil

#17. We tend to overvalue the things we can measure and undervalue the things we cannot.

John Hayes

#18. Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

H. Beam Piper

#19. [Robert]Ford had the idea that through fame he would receive some personal validity, but he didn't. I feel that these are not the main themes, but certainly themes that are at play in this film [ Assassination of Jesse James].

Brad Pitt

#20. We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

Ian McEwan

#21. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Malcolm Forbes Jr.

#22. I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

Iain Banks

#23. ingredients of genuine motivation - autonomy, mastery, and purpose - they

Daniel H. Pink

#24. For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country.

Evan Osnos

#25. Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

Nir Eyal

#26. Chemical cheating will be decisively routed when fans become properly repelled by it. They will recoil in disgust when they understand that athletes who are chemically propelled to victory do not merely overvalue winning, they misunderstand why winning is properly valued.

George F. Will

#27. Sometimes those who overvalue their strengths are the most dangerous because they simply do not understand that they cannot win, so they keep trying.

Kathleen Brooks

#28. There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Denis Diderot

#29. It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

Amy Cuddy