Overstate Quotations

If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

Let me be clear, we do not want to overstate the risks, we do not want to understate the risks, ... We need to get good information out to folks as soon as possible.

Business owners overstate the constraints. People don't understand that they are not going to lose clients over a stringent accounts receivable policy.

I don't think you can overstate how important it is.

There is no five-second delay on Crossfire-if you say it, people will hear it. Things can get heated; the potential is there to overstate your position. It is vital to not misrepresent what you actually believe.

I think it's important for us to not overstate what we know, ... We want to be concrete about what we know and what we don't know.

It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with companies and potential investors and get the message across that we are open for business.

It is hard to overstate how important this is. In one month's time, the biggest meeting of world leaders in history could endorse a new standard which could help stop a future Rwanda from happening.

I think it would be impossible to overstate the importance of fuel diversity in today's economy.

We played much better defense in this game. That certainly sets a tone for people and makes things go more smoothly. That was a big win. I hate to overstate it but we definitely should have taken two of three.

This situation does cast a bit of a cloud over that legacy, but I think it's important not to overstate it. Certainly, he gets high marks for how he's handled the situation. He could have fought it every step of the way.

Enron's practice of using prepaid transactions to understate debt and overstate cash flow from operations made its financial statement look much stronger; that in turn helped Enron maintain its investment rate credit rating and support -- even boost -- its share price,

There's no way to overstate how cool this is,

The Wyoming Equality Network has been heralded as one of the most progressive and effective uses of technologies in national education surveys. We plan to continue our success by working with Qwest to grow the applications and infrastructure of the WEN. We can't overstate the importance of equal access to the Internet, and we're pleased to be among the leaders in the nation when it comes to technology in the classroom.

The study shows that malpractice insurance companies consistently overstate how much they expect to pay in claims and in amounts far beyond the margin of reasonable error. By manipulating their books to misrepresent their 'losses,' the insurers have profited in two ways. First, they have used the inflated numbers to justify rate increases that were unnecessary and excessive. Second, they have invoked their exaggerated loss estimates to promote legislation allowing these insurers to limit how much compensation they have to pay out to victims of medical negligence.

Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own image.

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

Developers have really always been Microsoft's core customer segment. The applications come from developers; they're the innovation engine for the industry. I can't overstate the importance of developers.

As a result, the swings between March and April in the Census figures tend to be smaller than the swings in the retailers' report. Chain store results from the retailers may overstate the weakness in March.

That's No. 1. It's probably impossible to overstate the importance of getting the Measure K renewal program.

This could easily overstate the impact of inflation in some sectors.

This is the second Pearl Harbor. I don't think that I overstate it.

it's hard to overstate the importance of reading our own instruction book and that's what the human genome project is all about.

It's hard to overstate how important this technology is to future U.S. military plans.

It's difficult to overstate the impact this has had on the community. We've taken on tons of projects in downtown that might not have been done otherwise. It's created a big spin-off of retail activities.

I don't want to overstate the importance of our football program to the city, but South Florida's important to us and I think we're a big part of South Florida. I hope people can enjoy just a little break from the monotony of all the terrible things that have happened.

I don't want to overstate it but this is such a huge event it's bound to have a big effect on many construction materials and other construction costs. This is 10 times worse than Hurricane Andrew, when 28,000 homes were destroyed.

Her ankles are good. Her knees are good. She bounced out of the race super. I normally never would run a horse back in seven days, and I'm not saying the Polytrack will let people start doing that. I don't want to overstate it.

You can't replace these guys. You can't overstate what they mean to the party, politically and policy-wise.

You can't overstate how important this game is. It's huge for both of us. They know it as well as we do. Win this one and you put yourself in the driver's seat.