Overcorrection Quotes

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.

There's an arrogance of assuming that we can interpret the past - that we've left the right footnotes, that we're doing the right reclamation projects, that we're not overcorrecting. Actually, we have no idea where we're going. It's this Tower of Babel type scenario.

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

[New York reformers] tried to stand so straight that they fell over backwards.

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.