Quotes & Sayings About Overrated

Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know. — Harriet Rubin

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion. — William H. Macy

Branding is overrated. — Regis McKenna

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused. — Tommy Lee Jones

Sleep is highly overrated, Marmee; especially when there are books to be read. I shall sleep when I am dead and have enough of it. — H.L. Stephens

'Homeland' was a sensation out of the gate in 2011, gathering acclaim and sweeping up Emmys, and the reason such shows are so overrated is because, unlike with other forms of popular art, success in TV is measured almost purely by how obsessive we become. — Steve Erickson

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated. — Paulo Coelho

Neymar is massively overrated. — Neymar

I never prepare. I think that's completely overrated. It's a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line. So I don't really believe in preparation. — Joaquin Phoenix

Exercise is overrated. — Tim Ferriss

Perhaps the most overrated virtue in our list of shoddy virtues is that of giving. Giving builds up the ego of the giver, makes him superior and higher and larger than the receiver. Nearly always, giving is a selfish pleasure, and in many cases it is a downright destructive and evil thing. One has only to remember some of our wolfish financiers who spend two-thirds of their lives clawing fortunes out of the guts of society and the latter third pushing it back. It is not enough to suppose that their philanthropy is a kind of frightened restitution, or that their natures change when they have enough. Such a nature never has enough and natures do not change that readily. I think that the impulse is the same in both cases. For giving can bring the same sense of superiority as getting does, and philanthropy may be another kind of spiritual avarice. — John Steinbeck

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues ... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. — Malcolm Gladwell

Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don't know why. — Scott Adams

For what it's worth, I think perfect love stories have perfect disasters hidden somewhere. If a genuine relationship comes out of two people screwing before they saw the potential of the 'relationship'? Its perfect, beautiful, a work of art in fact.. Normal is overrated. — Nike Thaddeus

Thinking is the most overrated human activity. — Wendell Berry

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time ... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel! — Marc Jacobs

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. — Walter Darby Bannard

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated. — Ellen Glasgow

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music. — Elvis Costello

Self-awareness is the most overrated trick in the book. More than ambition, more than free will, more than getting on to the property ladder early. Right now I should be at the Little Hills, you probably just call them the Hills, right? — David Louden

Denise's first thought on seeing her blood stain Spade's lips was "oh shit". Then the fire that leapt into his gaze and the way he dominated her mouth in his next kiss made her decide that self-preservation was overrated. — Jeaniene Frost

Uggs. I think they're ugly. And I think big sunglasses are kind of overrated. I like big sunglasses but not those huge, round ones. — Justin Bieber

Leadership expert Michael Hyatt reflected on Karnazes's life and drew three conclusions about why we should embrace discomfort: 1. Comfort is overrated. It doesn't lead to happiness. It makes us lazy - and forgetful. It often leads to self-absorption, boredom, and discontent. 2. Discomfort can be a catalyst for growth. It makes us yearn for something more. It forces us to change, stretch, and adapt. 3. Discomfort is often a sign we're making progress. You've heard the expression, "no pain, no gain." It's true! When you push yourself to grow, you will experience discomfort.2 — Samuel Chand

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated. — David Low

I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.' — Bryce Harper

You're a slightly peculiar lady, aren't you?' Agatha asked.
Drusilla waved Agatha's comment away. 'Normal is completely overrated. — Jen Turano

I don't have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee.
Stirring clockwise to conjure.
Widdershins to banish.
There's never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated.
Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose.
I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter. — Erin Morgenstern

The power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal. — Charles Spurgeon

Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something. — Sarah Addison Allen

Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell. — Joel Stein

Perfect is highly overrated. I'm a character in my story, going through the chapters of my life as if it was written by an imaginary person, when I should be the author. - Elle — Vi Keeland

He looked at me and a small amount of simpathy came into view, but was quickly replaced with the pissed off look. Yip, same old Chax, emotions are so overrated. — Karen Swart

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times. — Cass Sunstein

Love is painful, pointless and overrated. — L.J.Smith

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars. — Robert Anton Wilson

Give me FICTION,
REALITY is OVERRATED! — Lily Velden

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so. — Cyril Connolly

He wished they could just be naked in his bed and not worry about words. Talking was overrated anyway. — Savannah Stuart

Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa — Richelle Mead

Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I'm grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated. — Kim Gordon

Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry. — Larry Wall

Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated. — Rob Lowe

Genius is a vastly overrated commodity. — Stephen King

The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it's personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed. — Lela Rose

You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to ... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing ... I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing. — Nick Cave

A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway. — Rachel Vincent

We have loyalty, fidelity, honor
All three are overrated. The only chance you have to demonstrate any of them is to deny yourself something or someone you desire. — Kresley Cole

Criticism, for a book, is a truthful, unfaked badge of attention, signaling that it is not boring; and boring is the only very bad thing for a book. Consider the Ayn Rand phenomenon: her books Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead have been read for more than half a century by millions of people, in spite of, or most likely thanks to, brutally nasty reviews and attempts to discredit her. The first-order information is the intensity: what matters is the effort the critic puts into trying to prevent others from reading the book, or, more generally in life, it is the effort in badmouthing someone that matters, not so much what is said. So if you really want people to read a book, tell them it is "overrated," with a sense of outrage (and use the attribute "underrated" for the opposite effect). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated. — Volkmar Sigusch

Being human is overrated. — Mark Penn

Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity -- oh, the tediousness of it...Shouldn't he return to a life where he might slice his own importance, to where he might relinquish this overrated control over his own destiny and perhaps be subtracted from its determination altogether? He might even experience that greatest luxury of not noticing himself at all. — Kiran Desai

You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated. — Sarah Dessen

If you say freedom is overrated, I just might sock ya. — Nashi Hoshimiya

Sometimes the future is overrated. — Kim Holden

The story's what matters; spelling's overrated. — Adam Langer

FLYING WAS OVERRATED. Heights were very overrated. Flying with wings was probably less overrated when said wings belonged to you, but when you were dangling in a swing that bopped up and down every time the angel of death carrying you beat his wings, you reached a new level of appreciation for walking. Walking was amazing and awesome, and I really wanted to do it again as soon as possible. — Ilona Andrews

Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Crash Davis Bull Durham — Ron Shelton

You young people are always so obsessed with truth. The truth is often overrated. — Maggie O'Farrell

Destinations are overrated, as long as your moving, your going somewhere — Sarah Dessen

To say I'm an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair. — Tina Fey

Sanity is overrated. — Cynthia Hand

Rivals accused Whitney of being overrated; bloggers accused her of being lucky. What she was, mainly, was right. — Michael Lewis

Honor is overrated. — Ally Carter

Being a martyr is highly overrated. — Patricia Briggs

Paradox is an overrated threat. There is ... a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference."
I frowned. "There's ... a law of conservation of history? — Jim Butcher

He wished he understood where they come from: all the terrorists, religious revolutionists
and hate-criminals. Did terrorizing entire communities of people help them sleep sound at
night? Did it make them happy? Or are they just in for the attention? Have they nothing to
lose? Or are they simply bored and spit balling issues that have always been there? Can all
global acts of violence and terror be summed up, as just a whole other level of a mixture of
bad parenting, psychological disorders and unattended anger management issues? Can they
be treated, medically or spiritually? Are we waiting for the birth of another great visionary
like Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or Prophet Muhammad, who will 'make the world a better
place'? Or are we just too soaked in the idea that religion is a dying concept and spirituality
is overrated? Is it too late? Are we too far behind? He wanted to know. — Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Testing is overrated. — Jeff Rich

Some say Twitter is overrated.
Some love it, others hate it.
I guess it depends on what you've got,
If you have guts to write a funny plot! — Ana Claudia Antunes

Maturity is highly overrated. — Kelley Armstrong

The most overrated underrated player in baseball. — Lawrence Ritter

My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it's done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do. — Tyler Cowen

Logic is overrated and superfluous when it comes to love. — Christina Dodd

Anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. — Robert A. Heinlein

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed - in view of the overall shortage of time - by patience. — Christopher Hitchens

I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved if people thought more about what they're doing. When someone gets upset with their computer, I tend to side with the computer. I think art is overrated, and bridges are underrated. In fact, I don't understand why bridges aren't art. It seems to me they're penalized for having a use. If I make a bridge that ends in midair, that's a sculpture. But put it between two landmasses and let it ferry two hundred thousand cars per day and it's infrastructure. That makes no sense. — Max Barry

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse — William Shatner

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall ... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am. — Michael J. Fox

It is not that complexity is overrated, but is is overcomplicated; it is not that obscurity is too obscure, it's that the underside grows grungy if it isn't exposed to the change of air;
it is not that the language is exhausted, it is that we run down; it's not that the edge won't cut anymore, it is that the cuts are getting thinner;
it's not that art is artificial, it is that the artists get outright seditty; it's not that literary reputations are not inevitable, it's that they are invented;
not that theories are not beautiful, but that they are feeble — C.D. Wright

I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. — Kevin Costner

This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for? — Christopher Hitchens

I was in Afghanistan for a while. Sand is overrated if there isn't a beach there to accompany it. I've probably still got sand in places I don't care to mention." "Maybe one day you'll find a pearl in your shorts," Joe said, grinning a gap-toothed grin. — Liliana Hart

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs. — Sarah Dessen

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old. — Peter Lindbergh

It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again. — Elizabeth Berg

Truth is overrated. — Rob Davis

Mind games to me are overrated. — Scott Brooks

I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can't find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No! — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Being forever available to the rest of the world is overrated. I mean, what are 'missed calls' invented for? — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We all thrive to achieve something. Few fails early; many wins late. Why is struggle compared when success is overrated? — Bhavik Sarkhedi

Okay," I gasp. "I can't really breathe, but other than that, okay."
"Breathing's overrated," Gabriel advises me."I'm discovering that right about now with this damn tie. — Carolyn MacCullough

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated. — Deidre Hall

Human reflection is chronically overrated, though, and we now suspect that our own reaction to food poisoning is in fact similar to that of rats. Garcia's findings forced comparative psychology to admit that evolution pushes cognition around, adapting it to the organism's needs. — Frans De Waal

Ruling the world is overrated. It would really cut into your leisure time. — Shanna Swendson

While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion. — Quentin Crisp

The idea of loving someone no matter what they do is overrated, not to mention largely impossible. — Meghan Daum

Good, don't think. Thinking is highly overrated. — Mary Jane Auch

Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated — Christopher Hitchens

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. — Stephen Colbert

Being queen is overrated. — Queen Rania Of Jordan