O Quotes
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“Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.”
“Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.”
“Overcoming negative experiences defines character and increases wisdom.”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.”
“Overcoming obstacles requires commitment and strength. Despite all odds, face each journey with courage, each struggle with accomplishment, and each challenge with victory.”
Source: Black Butterfly: The Journey - the Victory
“Overcoming one of my limiting beliefs, "girls are not as strong as men, therefore we cannot attempt the same physical challenges." I can tell you, with all certainty, this is not true. I have accomplished things on skis no one thought were physically possible for females.”
“Overcoming our own limiting beliefs is often the hardest step.”
Source: A Butterfly Life: 4 Keys to More Happiness, Better Health & Letting Your True Self Shine
“Overcoming panic attacks has left me humbled. It’s taught me how to be brave. It’s left me compassionate to the fears and sufferings of other people. It’s given me the wisdom that my thoughts and feelings are simply subjective responses, and don’t need to be taken as true reflections of reality.
But the most important thing I’ve learnt from coping with panic is this: No matter what happens in life, no matter how hard things seem, no matter how painful things are, moments always pass like fluffy clouds in a blue sky, and I will be fine.”
“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life."
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]”
“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.”
“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .”
Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
“Overcoming procrastination is not, I repeat, not about cramming additional work into your day . . . overcoming procrastination is about simplifying your life to make space for the activities that matter most.”
Source: The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
“Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.”
Source: The Spiritual Man
“Overcoming stresses, gives us opportunity to grow - when we don't allow it to break us.”
“Overcoming the blame tendency is a defining issue in the corporate world. Ben Dattner, a psychologist and organizational consultant, tells of an experience when he was working at the Republic National Bank of New York. He noticed a piece of paper that a co-worker had stapled to his cubicle wall. It read:
'The six phases of a project:
1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Rewards for the uninvolved'
Dattner writes: 'I have yet to come across a more accurate description of how most dramas play out in our working lives.”
Source: Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
“Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.”
“Overcoming the difficulties of an ultramarathon reminds me that I can overcome the difficulties of life”
“Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings.”
Source: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings... This is why there are so many old and weak and sick and poor people on the margins of society. We tend to push out the people who have qualities we're most afraid we will find in ourselves”
Source: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge head-on and, with an amazing support system, eventually come out stronger.”
“Overcoming your trauma isn't easy, but not overcoming it is slow death.”
“Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle.”
“Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Overconfidence blurs the line between ambition and delusion; wisdom lies in knowing the difference.”
“Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.”
“Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.”
“Overconfidence will kill your self-confidence. Mistakes that happen from your overconfidence will kill your confidence.”
“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today”
“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”
“Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.”
“Overconsumption isn’t just a personal problem; it’s a planetary one.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Overcooked, flabby pasta or a blob of tomato ketchup was enough to incense Frank; a plate of soggy pasta in Matteo’s Italian restaurant in Los Angeles, owned by his childhood buddy, Matty Jordan, had Frank storming into the kitchens. He looked around wildly, “Where are all the Italians?” he roared at the startled Filipino kitchen staff. Not content, he shot back upstairs and threw his plate of pasta against the wall. As he walked out, he dipped his finger in the tomato sauce and signed the smear: Picasso (Matty very good-naturedly put a frame around this later).”
Source: Dining with the Famous and Infamous
“Overcriminalization has become a national plague.”
“Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.”
“Overcrowding, which is one symptom of the population instability, continues. It continues, not because the overcrowded people remain, but because they leave. Too many of those who overcome the economic necessity to overcrowd get out, instead of improving their lot within the neighborhood. They are quickly replaced by others who currently have little economic choice. The buildings, naturally, wear out with disproportionate swiftness under these conditions.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.”
“Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.”
“Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.”
Source: Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
“Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't indulging in the "luxury" of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. And that's why it's so often a woman's addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums. All the KitKats in office drawers. All the unhappy moments, late at night, caught only in the fridge light.”
Source: How to Be a Woman
“Overeating regularly eventually leads to underliving.”
“Overeenkomsten zijn er wel in de evaluatie van de politiek in België. Beide partijen bestempelen de huidige gang van zaken als volkomen verwerpelijk. Allebei sturen zij aan op een drastische sanering van het politiek bedrijf. Ook zijn er gemeenschappelijke stijlkenmerken: een neiging tot verbaal geweld is er één van. Een ander is het verheffen van wijdverspreide stereotypen (in de trant van 'de migranten pakken ons werk af' of 'in de politiek is het allemaal één pot nat' en 'alle politici zijn zakkenvullers') tot partijpolitieke slogans. In die zin hebben het Vlaams Blok en ROSSEM allebei een demagogische inslag. Op dat punt zijn ze onderling verwisselbaar. Het zou dus kunnen dat kiezers van ROSSEM bij het verdwijnen van deze partij - wat, gegeven de wankele positie van haar stichter, niet ondenkbaar is - probleemloos naar het Vlaams Blok overstappen. Zo bezien heeft Van Rossem een werfreserve voor het Vlaams Blok aangelegd.”
Source: De betekenis van 24 november 1991
“Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the early computers, and each generation of computers reflects the needs of the programming languages of the preceding generation.”
“Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.”
“Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.”
“Overflowing thanksgiving; glorious grandeur!”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Overgiving isn’t kindness. Overgiving is fear dressed up as a good personality.”
Source: Inhale. Exhale. F*ck It.: Stop Overgiving. Start Living.
“Overhauling decades of preconceptions would take time.”
Source: The House in the Cerulean Sea
“Overhead a plane passes dreamily, its running lights winking.”
Source: Here is New York
“Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.”
Source: The House of Mirth