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The question Europeans need to answer … is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the US agenda and a Chinese overreaction. – Emmanuel Macron	Found on CNN 1 year 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
An' overreaction of the immune system' appears to be one of the ways natural Covid-19 infection leads to serious illness and death. There is the theoretical risk that vaccines might trigger that, but I am not aware of any data to date that support an actual role for vaccines in exacerbating the clinical illness, in fact, the trials showed that the vaccines, such as the JJ vaccine, are more effective against serious disease than mild disease. – Walter Orenstein	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm talking to doctors who have, since day one, been concerned about vaccinating people who've already had Covid, because you die, not of Covid, you die of the immune system overreaction to Covid, so there's a concern there. – Senator Johnson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Today's overreaction could look like tomorrow's underreaction. – Rory McIlroy	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The experience has been in all industries (involved in litigation), these things always get solved, there has been a significant overreaction there and it's a great buying opportunity. It's almost like buy one, get one free. – Liam Condon	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have never been in a nuclear war where escalation is about to happen and early-warning systems are poised to look for signs of surprise nuclear strikes. In such a scenario, a decision by a military power to launch a conventional attack - but the adversary expects and mistakenly interprets it as a nuclear attack - could contribute to an overreaction that escalates the crisis. – Hans Kristensen	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The problem with turning to the government to regulate more aggressively is that it could easily, and probably would, result in an overreaction by the companies to avoid whatever punishment was put in place, that would interfere with the free expression that is one of the benefits of social media… If the platforms do this work themselves, they can do it more precisely and do it without government overreach. – Paul Barrett	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
( It's) the topic of the day, the year and the century, it would appear, listen, my view was that there was a general overreaction to the underperformance. – Chief Executive James Gorman	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This is a total overreaction – killing a mouse with a shotgun. – One Calgary energy lawyer	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I'm not sure how much more we can ramp up security without seriously infringing on the freedoms that are so integral to our lives, an armed guard at every door throughout the world? That seems unworkable and, to be frank, precisely the sort of overreaction that the Islamic State wants to invite. – Brendan Koerner	Found on CNN 8 years ago
( The) U.S. economy is not going off the rails, i'm generally sanguine. We muddle through. I think some of this is an overreaction to the overreaction of assets being so swollen. – Lloyd Blankfein	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It should be no secret now that China is trying to move from a manufacturing to a consumer economy. That’s been in the news for a while. This is a huge overreaction, the consumer economy continues to improve in China. On such a big base now, it just can’t grow at 10% forever. – Aaron Jett	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
That is total overreaction. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We do think in certain areas of the corporate credit markets that people have been overreacting and as a result, we are responding, we do think there's been an overreaction in certain corporate credits and we are there to bid bonds which is not too dissimilar to what we did last year when there was a lot of volatility in Emerging Markets, particularly in Russia. – Dan Ivascyn	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We do think in certain areas of the corporate credit markets that people have been overreacting and as a result, we are responding, we do think there’s been an overreaction in certain corporate credits and we are there to bid bonds which is not too dissimilar to what we did last year when there was a lot of volatility in Emerging Markets, particularly in Russia. – Dan Ivascyn	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida see a little bit of an under-reaction from the Democrats and an overreaction from some of the The Republicans '. – Vin Weber	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This may be an overreaction as the Fed has made abundantly clear that any tightening will be moderate. – Jonathan Lewis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What you are seeing is retail investors reacting to continued headlines and concerns that a Fed tightening is more imminent, this may be an overreaction as the Fed has made abundantly clear that any tightening will be moderate. – Jonathan Lewis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There was, frankly, an overreaction to the simple fact that someone has to be in charge with gathering and disseminating information, we stepped in to play that role, which is a role to be applauded. – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others. – Stephen Covey	added by anonymous 10 years ago

The question Europeans need to answer … is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the US agenda and a Chinese overreaction.

– Emmanuel Macron

Found on CNN
1 year 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

An' overreaction of the immune system' appears to be one of the ways natural Covid-19 infection leads to serious illness and death. There is the theoretical risk that vaccines might trigger that, but I am not aware of any data to date that support an actual role for vaccines in exacerbating the clinical illness, in fact, the trials showed that the vaccines, such as the JJ vaccine, are more effective against serious disease than mild disease.

– Walter Orenstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm talking to doctors who have, since day one, been concerned about vaccinating people who've already had Covid, because you die, not of Covid, you die of the immune system overreaction to Covid, so there's a concern there.

– Senator Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Today's overreaction could look like tomorrow's underreaction.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The experience has been in all industries (involved in litigation), these things always get solved, there has been a significant overreaction there and it's a great buying opportunity. It's almost like buy one, get one free.

– Liam Condon

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have never been in a nuclear war where escalation is about to happen and early-warning systems are poised to look for signs of surprise nuclear strikes. In such a scenario, a decision by a military power to launch a conventional attack - but the adversary expects and mistakenly interprets it as a nuclear attack - could contribute to an overreaction that escalates the crisis.

– Hans Kristensen

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The problem with turning to the government to regulate more aggressively is that it could easily, and probably would, result in an overreaction by the companies to avoid whatever punishment was put in place, that would interfere with the free expression that is one of the benefits of social media… If the platforms do this work themselves, they can do it more precisely and do it without government overreach.

– Paul Barrett

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

( It's) the topic of the day, the year and the century, it would appear, listen, my view was that there was a general overreaction to the underperformance.

– Chief Executive James Gorman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is a total overreaction – killing a mouse with a shotgun.

– One Calgary energy lawyer

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I'm not sure how much more we can ramp up security without seriously infringing on the freedoms that are so integral to our lives, an armed guard at every door throughout the world? That seems unworkable and, to be frank, precisely the sort of overreaction that the Islamic State wants to invite.

– Brendan Koerner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

( The) U.S. economy is not going off the rails, i'm generally sanguine. We muddle through. I think some of this is an overreaction to the overreaction of assets being so swollen.

– Lloyd Blankfein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It should be no secret now that China is trying to move from a manufacturing to a consumer economy. That’s been in the news for a while. This is a huge overreaction, the consumer economy continues to improve in China. On such a big base now, it just can’t grow at 10% forever.

– Aaron Jett

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

That is total overreaction.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We do think in certain areas of the corporate credit markets that people have been overreacting and as a result, we are responding, we do think there's been an overreaction in certain corporate credits and we are there to bid bonds which is not too dissimilar to what we did last year when there was a lot of volatility in Emerging Markets, particularly in Russia.

– Dan Ivascyn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We do think in certain areas of the corporate credit markets that people have been overreacting and as a result, we are responding, we do think there’s been an overreaction in certain corporate credits and we are there to bid bonds which is not too dissimilar to what we did last year when there was a lot of volatility in Emerging Markets, particularly in Russia.

– Dan Ivascyn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida see a little bit of an under-reaction from the Democrats and an overreaction from some of the The Republicans '.

– Vin Weber

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This may be an overreaction as the Fed has made abundantly clear that any tightening will be moderate.

– Jonathan Lewis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What you are seeing is retail investors reacting to continued headlines and concerns that a Fed tightening is more imminent, this may be an overreaction as the Fed has made abundantly clear that any tightening will be moderate.

– Jonathan Lewis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There was, frankly, an overreaction to the simple fact that someone has to be in charge with gathering and disseminating information, we stepped in to play that role, which is a role to be applauded.

– Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

– Stephen Covey

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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