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Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.
I am overflowing with words I do not have.
A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge - that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she maybe.
The relentless onslaught of this stupefying imagery that pounds our inner landscapes flat, a carpet-bombing of the mind. The language of the world, that overwhelms us.
Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion
The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.
Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.
Over analysis leads to paralysis
Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
overreliance bred complacency. I
... for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.
There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.
Overestimate the small.
This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to precipitate unnecessary wars as well as a painful gaseous condition called stock market bubbles.
people do get carried away and make mistakes, but one must have indulgence; those mistakes are merely evidence of enthusiasm for the cause and of abnormal external environment
Underestimate is the sign of getting fucked up.
I overwhelm even myself.
Overconsumerism justifies everything.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking:I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
An intelligent adult often feels it is demeaning to pay attention to simplistic definitions.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
People are so over-connected that they are completely disconnected
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.
I overthink a lot of things.
It's not information overload. It's filter failure.
Don't repeat this word again
Understate and over-prove.
(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.
Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.
I exaggerate everything, that is where I go wrong.
I feel there's no need to overstate.
It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.
People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.
How dangerous it is to assume that a person is more than a person.
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.
You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.
Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.
Out of Mind spring in-numerable things, conditioned by discrimination (i.e., classification) and habit-energy; these things people accept as an external world. ...
The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.
Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
Sometimes an unimaginative mind can imagine the most unimaginable
It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later.
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.
Verbal description of everything, however, must remain infinitely distant from the thing itself, overstatement and understatement sometimes hitting off the truth better than a flat assertion of bare fact.
Do not underestimate objects.
illusory superiority." It is a phenomenon whereby people tend to overemphasize their positive qualities and underemphasize their negative qualities.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
Nothing Succeeds like excess!
Problems are perceptual illusions.
There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
You're in a mess, and in excess.
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
Much of the discussion in this book is about biases of intuition. However, the focus on error does not denigrate human intelligence, any more than the attention to diseases in medical texts denies good health.
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
A male on
the other hand can never get enough copulations with as many
different females as possible: the word excess has no meaning for a
male
I fall way beyond the norm on the verb.
An inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
The more you overthink the less you will understand.
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
I have often been accused of being obtuse, however one must dig well below the top-soil to get my drift".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.
It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.
Nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.
A man whose consciousness is possessed by a particular content has an enormous dynamism in him, namely that of the unconscious content; but this counteracts the centroversion tendency of the ego to work for the whole rather than for the individual content.
It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
If [things] seem to have a relative unreality ... it is because they are potential and not actual; they are unfulfilled ... They have it in them to be more real than they are.
Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.
Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.
The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time a
different text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.
[...] The little everyday neglect of imagining other people well can add up to a lifetime of flawed, perverted vision, an expenditure of soul in a waste of emotionalism.
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.
One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
Awkward approximations, dull stammerings which cannot convey my sense of exhilaration as I seem to burst impediments, to exceed bounds of the possible, to experience, in the ruins of the human, the birth of something utterly new.
Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.
I'm underrealized," Lula said. "I gotta lot of untapped potential. Yesterday my horoscope said I gotta expand my horizons." "You expand any more in that dress, and you'll get yourself arrested," Connie said.
Twelve Sharp
Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.
Ducking autocorrect!
You have to be careful not to get overexposed.
The destructive potential of language is contained within the very nature of representation. Words, particularly nouns, force an infinite of unique objects and processes into a finite number of categories.
For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.
Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked about. We had like ten thousand tests on it, and the teacher would kill you if you didn't spell it right." "That's very good, Dana!" said Mrs. Jewls. "You learned your lesson well.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Too much is almost enough
To exaggerate is to weaken.
One thought fills immensity.
Go in fear of abstractions.
The more I go into I, the more I fall out of I.Fall-- Ken Wilber