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This puts the burden on China not to overreact, because any overreaction is only going to push China further away from the world. – Yun Sun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The other side of (psyops) is that you can unintentionally cause your adversary to overreact. So, it’s the kind of thing that you have to be super accurate. And that requires a deep understanding of your adversary. – Rebekah Koffler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think human nature is to overreact, personally. It's sort of short-sighted and you just see the feeling that you have at the moment, right now, what is it, best three out of five now ? We went from best four out of seven -- now, it's best three out of five. – Dusty Baker	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We tend to overreact in any direction after the results like this. Candidates and campaigns matter. What is happening on the ground in a race matters. To claim Trump’s popularity and/or his hold is slipping based on last night’s results would be a miscalculation on the part of the pundits and operatives pushing such a narrative. – Mike Biundo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would echo the words of the WHO that said don't overreact. My own view is don't panic. I'm an old guy, been around a long time, I've seen these things come and go. – Larry Kudlow	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Sweets have been so demonized that it's almost natural for children to highly regard them and overreact around them, as long as the majority of a child's diet consists of nutritious foods, there is limited room for candy, cookies, cake or soda -- or high-fat side foods like french fries. – Jill Castle	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We don't overreact to things like that, if those things are true, what does it mean to us as we go forward ? It could mean several things. We know what our end point is and we know what they've agreed to, so let's keep our eye on that and not get distracted. – United States	Found on CNN 5 years ago
My general philosophy with these sorts of things are still for patients to not overreact with these studies, to continue to do the things that are known to be hopeful and healthful, don't smoke. Try to maintain your ideal body weight. Exercise regularly. Wear a helmet. Don't text and drive. Wear a seat belt. – Ganesh Palapattu	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We should not overreact. – Maltese Finance Minister Edward Scicluna	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We would prefer that as a first step, (corporate tax data) should be available to tax authorities, not to the public, we should not overreact. – Maltese Finance Minister Edward Scicluna	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These kids sometimes overreact to the smallest things. Or they keep their heads down and get real quiet. Then I know something is wrong. – Armando Castro	Found on CNN 8 years ago
All week we've seen Treasuries overreact as stocks have plunged on oil, and that's happening today still. – Cheng Chen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
While monetary policy should not overreact to short-term temporary fluctuations in financial markets, policy makers should take seriously the potential downside risk to their economic forecasts and manage those risks as we think about the appropriate path, these downside risks reflect continued headwinds from weakness within countries that represent many of our major trading partners, and only limited data to support the projected path of inflation to target. – Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Markets tend to overreact on these types of geopolitical events and they don't have much of a fundamental impact on markets. – David Schiegoleit	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The worst thing in the world for a neurologist is to not hit your milestones, but I tried really hard not to overreact and freak out. – Michelle Moon	Found on CNN 8 years ago
With improvement to the renminbi exchange rate regime and progress in RMB internationalisation, it is quite normal that China's foreign reserves may increase or decrease, and there is no need to overreact to it. – President Xi Jinping	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I don’t want to take too much signal from something that could turn out to be noise. I don’t want to overreact to short-term data that may not in the long term really turn out to be significant for that kind of decision. – Esther George	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We don't want to overreact, but we have to do more quickly. – Ray Odierno	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

This puts the burden on China not to overreact, because any overreaction is only going to push China further away from the world.

– Yun Sun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The other side of (psyops) is that you can unintentionally cause your adversary to overreact. So, it’s the kind of thing that you have to be super accurate. And that requires a deep understanding of your adversary.

– Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think human nature is to overreact, personally. It's sort of short-sighted and you just see the feeling that you have at the moment, right now, what is it, best three out of five now ? We went from best four out of seven -- now, it's best three out of five.

– Dusty Baker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We tend to overreact in any direction after the results like this. Candidates and campaigns matter. What is happening on the ground in a race matters. To claim Trump’s popularity and/or his hold is slipping based on last night’s results would be a miscalculation on the part of the pundits and operatives pushing such a narrative.

– Mike Biundo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would echo the words of the WHO that said don't overreact. My own view is don't panic. I'm an old guy, been around a long time, I've seen these things come and go.

– Larry Kudlow

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Sweets have been so demonized that it's almost natural for children to highly regard them and overreact around them, as long as the majority of a child's diet consists of nutritious foods, there is limited room for candy, cookies, cake or soda -- or high-fat side foods like french fries.

– Jill Castle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We don't overreact to things like that, if those things are true, what does it mean to us as we go forward ? It could mean several things. We know what our end point is and we know what they've agreed to, so let's keep our eye on that and not get distracted.

– United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My general philosophy with these sorts of things are still for patients to not overreact with these studies, to continue to do the things that are known to be hopeful and healthful, don't smoke. Try to maintain your ideal body weight. Exercise regularly. Wear a helmet. Don't text and drive. Wear a seat belt.

– Ganesh Palapattu

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We should not overreact.

– Maltese Finance Minister Edward Scicluna

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We would prefer that as a first step, (corporate tax data) should be available to tax authorities, not to the public, we should not overreact.

– Maltese Finance Minister Edward Scicluna

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These kids sometimes overreact to the smallest things. Or they keep their heads down and get real quiet. Then I know something is wrong.

– Armando Castro

Found on CNN
8 years ago

All week we've seen Treasuries overreact as stocks have plunged on oil, and that's happening today still.

– Cheng Chen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While monetary policy should not overreact to short-term temporary fluctuations in financial markets, policy makers should take seriously the potential downside risk to their economic forecasts and manage those risks as we think about the appropriate path, these downside risks reflect continued headwinds from weakness within countries that represent many of our major trading partners, and only limited data to support the projected path of inflation to target.

– Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Markets tend to overreact on these types of geopolitical events and they don't have much of a fundamental impact on markets.

– David Schiegoleit

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The worst thing in the world for a neurologist is to not hit your milestones, but I tried really hard not to overreact and freak out.

– Michelle Moon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With improvement to the renminbi exchange rate regime and progress in RMB internationalisation, it is quite normal that China's foreign reserves may increase or decrease, and there is no need to overreact to it.

– President Xi Jinping

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don’t want to take too much signal from something that could turn out to be noise. I don’t want to overreact to short-term data that may not in the long term really turn out to be significant for that kind of decision.

– Esther George

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We don't want to overreact, but we have to do more quickly.

– Ray Odierno

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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