Evander Holyfield

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!

American Boxer

Ernest Istook

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

American Politician

Nicolas Cage

There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.

Actor

Henry David Thoreau

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

American Author

Eric Hoffer

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

American Writer

Josh Billings

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

American Comedian

Nicolas Chamfort

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

French Writer

Stan Laurel

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

English Actor

Khalil Gibran

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Lebanese Poet

Daniel Schorr

American Journalist

Often used non-literally for humorous or dramatic effect.

Non-literal Usage

Used to express strong feelings rather than factual accuracy.

Emotional Context

Be aware some cultures may not understand or appreciate exaggeration.

Cultural Perception

It reflects a personal view, not necessarily shared by others.

Subjectivity

Can be used to create a strong mental image or impression.

Impactful Imagery

Exaggeration may unintentionally mislead others about the reality of a situation.

False Impression

 which is actually incredibly uniform. The universe is almost a perfect sphere, but there are these very tiny variations which we show here in great exaggeration. And from them in the time sequence we're going to have to go from these tiny variations to these irregular galaxies and first stars

The design of the...

 The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken-word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that's what was expected of me. The first time that I performed, the audience of teenagers hooted and hollered their sympathy,

If I should have a...

 What happens next is news, okay? An excellent journalist knows how to pick the story that will make headlines, and people will read it because it's sensational. Unusual events are more interesting, no? And they are exaggerated, and especially things we're afraid of.

How not to be ignorant...

 to build their hospitals and schools. It's also very difficult to confront a general with medals on his chest. It's very difficult for a politician, because you're afraid that many lives have been lost in vain. You feel deep, deep guilt. You exaggerate your fears,

Rory Stewart: Time to...

 maybe that's an exaggeration. But there's another problem which goes along with this -- that Europe is increasingly out of touch with the world -- and that is a sort of loss of a sense of the future. I mean, Europe once, of course, once commanded the future

Understanding the rise...

 also emphasizes the worldliness of the merchant class, and the pearl itself, a symbol of wealth, is actually an exaggeration. Vermeer couldn't have afforded a real pearl of its size. It was likely just a glass or tin drop varnished to look like a pearl.

Why is Vermeer's "Girl...

 females look very different than the males they are brown much more subtly colored not nearly as an ostentatious or exaggerated but females play a very important role in the evolution of birds-of-paradise this is the courtship display area of a

Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...

 where almost everything is shared. At the other extreme, sometimes our attachment to our things can go too far. Part of the cause of hoarding disorder is an exaggerated sense of responsibility and protectiveness toward one's belongings.

Why are we so attached...

 word poetry and it is without an ounce of exaggeration that I say my whole world changed probably the most substantial evidence is the way that I've been able to share poetry farther and farther away from home since giving

Poetry makes people...

 throughout my life, I've always been led to understand that my anger is an exaggeration, a misrepresentation, that it will make me rude and unlikable.

Exaggerate