Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite. — Paul Feyerabend
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. — Lao Tzu
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it. — Confucius
Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure. — Irwin Corey
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance. — Janet Frame
Obey the principles without being bound by them. — Bruce Lee
It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification. — Karl Popper
Extraordinary results deemed that you set a priority and act on it. — Gary Keller
Short Overriding Quotes
The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist. — Kevin Carter
For us, the protection of a person’s digital identity is the overriding priority. — Ursula von der Leyen
Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement. — Christa McAuliffe
The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair. — Jon Postel
Context overrides. In different contexts, cells do different things. — Mina Bissell
The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies. — Walter Weyl
Fear overrides all rational thinking — Greg Secker
Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience. — Cynthia Daignault
Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it. — Mason Cooley
Overriding Image Quotes
Overbearing Quotes
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism. — Thomas Jefferson
People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing. — Guy Browning
Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. — James Madison
People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world. — Vince Staples
A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts. — Omar Epps
Do what Jesus says... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18]. — Bernard of Clairvaux
My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that. — Tom Bergeron
A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old. — Lao Tzu
What about Beck?" "Backwoods Boy? Are you crazy? It'd be a threesome - me, him and his overbearing ego. Definitely doomed to failure. — Jana Oliver
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority. — Ayn Rand
Overdressed Quotes
Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as though you knew that the eye of heaven is upon you, and that you are living under the approbation or disapprobation of God. — Ellen G. White
I believe in manicures.
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. — Audrey Hepburn
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles. — Audrey Hepburn
You can never be overdressed or overeducated. — Oscar Wilde
It's very hard to find men's clothes that do what you want, especially when you go through them as quickly as I do. I need them to be flashy, but I never like to be overdressed. I need to make a statement, but I hate wearing too many clothes. — Mika
In my mind, being overdressed is not a bad thing at all. What's the worst case scenario? That you are the best-dressed person in the room? Who cares! — Rachel Zoe
Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard. — Karen Karbo
The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated. — Oscar Wilde
...if you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you. — Condoleezza Rice
Overlanding Quotes
Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write. — Suzanne Collins
You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy," said Vikus. "Oh, I see," said Gregor. "So, when's he coming?" Vikus fixed his eyes on Gregor. "I believe he is already here. — Suzanne Collins
But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible. — Suzanne Collins
If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it. — Suzanne Collins
The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” said Ripred. — Suzanne Collins
Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists. — William Henry Irwin
For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea. — Suzanne Collins
New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland. — Ned Sublette
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights. — John Frusciante
Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.' — Maya Angelou
We have very powerful figures in The United States that want desperately to keep this war going. The Senators in favor of this war that claim it's just a matter of time, Ukraine is launching a counter offensive, we are almost there, this is the best money we ever spent are either deranged or doing what their donors tell them. There is a lot of ignorance and arrogance on the hill, but the #1 overriding impulse is greed. They are listening to their donors. — Douglas Macgregor
The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament. — A. V. Dicey
Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. — Sarah Vowell
Democracy thus becomes a mass delusion of people attempting to override the rules of economics by voting themselves a free lunch and being manipulated into violent tantrums against scapegoats whenever the bill for the free lunch arrives via inflation and economic recessions. — Saifedean Ammous
The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth. — Stuart Wilde
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war. — Daniel Ellsberg
The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he undercuts the overriding importance of his own goals and principles. And if he himself values his own goals so lightly, how highly will others value them. — Murray Rothbard
After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him! — Roger Meddows Taylor
Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government. — Lee Kuan Yew
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning. — Don Meyer
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. — Dan Savage
You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some similar psychological force that is obviously present. But there are also cases where you have to recognize that you have no wisdom to add - and that your best course is to trust some expert. — Charlie Munger
In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment. — Ada Louise Huxtable
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this. — Dalai Lama
Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story. — Maurice Sendak
The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs. — Donald Berwick
Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved. — Antonin Scalia
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion. — Andrei Tarkovsky
The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes. — Dan Brown
Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it. — Lauren Mackler
There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information. — Joel Osteen
What is it about this ideological dream of the right to bear arms that overrides any other rights, I mean the rights to not have your children killed at school? — Piers Morgan
The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest. — Warren E. Burger
I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise. — Peter Singer
A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience. — Paul Simon
Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace. — Rita Mae Brown
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us. — Reginald Maudling
But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness. — Leo Hindery
From within, from the very most interior center of existence and consciousness, the fact of oneness evermore proves to be the overriding truth. — Geoffrey Hodson
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level. — Brian Eno
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere. — E. O. Wilson
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed. — George Santayana
What do you know about women?" They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable. — Katie MacAlister
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