Gregg Easterbrook

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

American Author

Harry Dean Stanton

I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.

American Actor

George Stephanopoulos

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

American Journalist

Marc Rich

I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

American Businessman

Consider the situation carefully to determine if a response is an overreaction or appropriate.

Context Matters

Overreaction often involves strong emotions that aren't proportional to the situation.

Emotional Intensity

Overreaction can be positive, such as excessive gratitude for a small favor.

Not Always Negative

 Just yesterday, we were having our family meeting, and we had voted to work on overreacting. So we said, "Okay, give us a reward and give us a punishment. Okay?" So one of my daughters threw out, you get five minutes of overreacting time all week. So we kind of liked that. But then her sister started working the system. She said, "Do I get one five-minute overreaction

Bruce Feiler: Agile...

 and paid the price. Thankfully, nobody was killed. But this bridge collapse stopped suspension bridge development dead in its tracks. For 10 years nobody thought about doing another suspension bridge. There were none. And when they did emerge in the 1950s, they were an understandable overreaction,

Bridges should be...

 because the first step to preventing panic attacks is understanding them. At its core, a panic attack is an overreaction to the body’s normal physiological response to the perception of danger. This response starts with the amygdala, the brain region involved in processing fear.

What causes panic...

 it then came to Italy Italy was the pivotal moment I think when it explodes in Italy and that's when everyone starts panicking and you could even argue that maybe there was a slight overreaction and that's why you started seeing models that said two to three million people

How the coronavirus...

 reward and give us a punishment okay so one of my daughters throughout you have you get five minutes of overreacting time all week so we kind of like that but the nurses just started working the system she said do I get one five-minute overreaction or can I get

Agile programming -- for...

 to reality and converges with feelings you often don't even know it's there so a nice example of this came from last year and swine swine flu when swine flu first appeared the initial news caused a lot of overreaction now it was it had a name which made it

The security mirage -...

 pre-positioned we've got a scene in front of us that makes my reaction from earlier look like a complete overreaction because to the west of us the sun is shining beautifully and backlighting at these lovely fluffy water back for us now on one side of us

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 and challenging. Resolving a racially stressful encounter involves being able to make a healthy decision that is not an underreaction, where I pretend, "That didn't bother me," or an overreaction, where I exaggerate the moment.

How to resolve racially...

 But also, if you have this belief and it creates a sense of fear, it leads to overreaction. And the greatest danger we have of managing this power transition of the shift toward the East is fear.

Joseph Nye on global...

 When swine flu first appeared, the initial news caused a lot of overreaction. Now, it had a name, which made it scarier than the regular flu, even though it was more deadly.