A Quote by Larry McMurtry

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Larry McMurtry

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Mystery Overrated Underrated Understanding

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Larry McMurtry
American - Novelist
Born: June 3, 1936

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

Helena Bonham Carter

Systems are overrated; players are underrated.

Jeff Van Gundy

Talent? Overrated. Leadership? Underrated.

Colin Cowherd

I'd rather be someone that's underrated than overrated.

Clint Dempsey

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

Lawrence Ritter

My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.

Tyler Cowen

I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.

Randeep Hooda

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

Todd Phillips

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

Gregory Maguire

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

Brad Pitt

Whoever you talk to, I'm either overrated or underrated. It's all who you to talk to.

Matt Serra

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

Richard Whately

It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

Jeremy Lin

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

Agnes Denes

An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery. Instead, the mystery expands from matters of expertise and taste to encompass the hidden patterns and wonderful coincidences of nature.