Underestimate Quotes - Page 10

• People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.

  Salma Hayek

  Long, People, Trying

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• Let's not underestimate the seriousness of the challenge. We have a deeply divided party. We have a deeply divided country.

  Stephen Crabb

  Country, Party, Challenges

  "Brexit: Crabb and Fox out of Tory race after May wins first round of voting - As it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Claire Phipps and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.

  Josh McDermitt

  Sitting, Sitting Quietly, Never Underestimate

  "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me and once it's got its grips in you, there's nowhere to go.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, Laughing, Littles

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.

  George Pattison

  Thinking, Years, Taught Us

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

  Akiva Goldsman

  Thinking, People, Collaboration

  Source: collider.com

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• We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.

  Brian D. McLaren

  God, Christian, Humble

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• You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Yesterday, Today

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, People, Broke

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It was my honor to have done what I could do to help. I learned to never underestimate the possibility of change, that values have power and that time and patience can pay off, especially if you`re serious about your objectives.

  Daniel Fried

  Possibility Of Change, Honor, Serious

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You can't underestimate the sickness of the American people right now. They're really sick. And, that's, I'm more angry at the sick Americans than I am at Obama or Hillary Clinton. I'm really angry at the sick Americans.

  Matt Drudge

  Sick, People, Clinton

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Success, People, Use

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.13, The Overlook Press

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• A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

  Mario Puzo

  Enemy, Faults, Virtue

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.310, Penguin

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• Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.

  Randy Pausch

  Fun, Importance, Having Fun

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• A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

  Neill Blomkamp

  House, Tree, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Believe, Progress

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Opportunity, Earthquakes, Warning

  "Martyrs in Paradise". Book by Terry Reese Downing, 2009.

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• There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Unique, Individuality, Admiration And Respect

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• My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there may be a tendency to view the animal-rights opposition in somewhat distorted fashion as a new development, as the product of a very recent enlightenment about the rights due to animals.

  Bette Ford

  Fashion, Animal, Rights

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People underestimate the power of the Internet. For some consumers, it is the source of all information. Younger adults are on their phones more than they watch television. They don't read newspapers. It is their real world. It is not a set of virtual lenses.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Real, Phones, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function that Europe shouldn't underestimate.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Europe, Turkeys, East

  "If the EU Doesn't Want Us, They Should Say it Now". DER SPIEGEL interview, www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2007.

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• That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like 13 years of age, that never forgot H.L. Mencken's notion that nobody lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people. That's the horseshit the establishment has always lived with.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Average, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Happy Birthday, Average, Two

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.17, Storey Publishing

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• I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Complexity, Urges

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.13, Storey Publishing

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