Overvaluation And Undervaluation Quotes & Sayings

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men. — Margaret Mead

When I finish my school work for the day, I like to go play basketball, ride my bike or skateboard, play video games, or go free running. — Max Charles

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? — William Shakespeare

Freud wrote that love involves the undervaluation of reality and the overvaluation of the desired object. While the correct valuation of a person is an odd, if not impossible idea, we might say Freud meant something like this: for various reasons, many of them masochistic, we become involved with others who cannot possibly give what we ask for; we can wait as long as we wish, but they do not have it, and one day, if we bear to abandon our fantasy and see clearly, we might face reality straight on. We will then look elsewhere for fulfillment, to a place where our needs can, in fact, be satisfied. — Hanif Kureishi

If I get stuck in who I am now, I will never blossom into who I might yet become. I need to practice the gentle art of letting go. - SAM KEEN, AUTHOR — Barbara Stanny

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality — Charles De Gaulle

We need help, the poet reckoned. — Edward Dorn

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood — Tim Flannery

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me. — Nicholas Ozeki

That's a demon for you. Wants me dead but wants to be sure that he is the one who does me in. — Daniel Xiao Wang

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself. — Jill Paton Walsh

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand. — Samuel R. Delany

Millions of people have lived on the earth, and we don't know even their names. Accept that simple fact - you are here for only a few days and then you will be gone. These few days are not to be wasted in hypocrisy, in fear. These days have to be rejoiced. — Osho