The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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"People"Fran Lebowitz
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The essence of good House of Commons speaking is the conversational style, the facility for quick, informal interruptions and interchanges. Harangues from a rostrum would be a bad substitute for the conversational style in which so much of our business is done. But the conversational style requires a fairly small space, and there should be on great occasions a sense of crowd and urgency. There should be a sense of the importance of much that is said and a sense that great matters are being decided, there and then, by the House. ... It has a collective personality which enjoys the regard of the public, and which imposes itself upon the conduct not only of individual Members but of parties.
Winston Churchill
"Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.
Lois McMaster Bujold
A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor?
Marshall McLuhan
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?Robert Browning
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
Sri Aurobindo
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