Quotes About Overuse

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

I overuse words. My kids catch me saying stuff. They're like, 'Hey, you say that all the time.' 'Boom' is one of those things.

This or that is proclaimed awesome every second sentence - and we have lost a wonderful English word.

When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.

tragedy of the commons

Defensive running strategies thus become an important part of your training plan. If you want to have a long running career, determine what activities most often cause you to become injured, then avoid them. This is particularly true when it comes to overuse injuries that result from what might be called training errors.

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

The] overuse and misuse of standardized tests is only the start of the problems with NCLB. NCLB uses these test scores to impose sanctions that have no record of success as school improvement strategies, and in fact are not really educational strategies at all. They're political strategies designed to promote privatization and market reform in public education.

Almost three-quarters of the forty million antibiotic prescriptions written each year in the United States are for conditions that cannot be cured with antibiotics.

Damn this, damn that. So much profligate damning. Hell will be busy.

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used.

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.

licor es como el matarratas o la generosidad: cuanto más se usa, menos efecto tiene.

we are led to the excessive use of specific products. This concentration is harmful.

Don't overlook the truth; properly handled, it can be an effective weapon. But bear in mind that weapons get blunted with overuse.

It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.

There was a time when cops would hear a Level One come over the air, and it would be a holy-shit moment. These days it's so overused that the sense of urgency is gone.

Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.

I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death.