Quotes About Overcompensation

#1. The author describes the attitude of some on the frontier at Rome's twilight as exhibiting a kind of London-in-the-blitz determination to carry on being more Roman than usual.

Peter Heather

#2. Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

Newt Gingrich

#3. Heroism is overcompensation for fear.

Marty Rubin

#4. The greatest help you will ever have in this life is the Holy Ghost! Cultivate him as a friend and constant companion.

Barbara W. Winder

#5. But it is really just a psychic overcompensation for our impotence as beings.

Thomas Ligotti

#6. Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.

Moby

#7. Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

Roseanne Barr

#8. Inferiority Complex: A wholly or partly unconscious sense of inferiority, or feelings of lack of worth. The overcompensation of these feelings can lead to neurotic symptoms. Superiority Complex: Suppressing feelings that exist in an attempt to conquer an inferiority complex. According

Paul Kleinman

#9. Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

Karen Horney

#10. A modern-day conservator of Monticello says that Woodmont Jefferson as an amateur architect rather than a professional was that he made things more complicated than they needed to be for any practical purpose.

Bill Bryson

#11. Death will be late to bring us aid

William Carlos Williams

#12. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

#13. Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Robertson Davies

#14. Mobile devices such as Android and the iPhone achieve their battery life largely because they can aggressively and quickly enter into and exit from sleep states. GPS prevents this.

Robert Love

#15. When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

Michael Douglas