Underestimate Quotes - Page 11

• Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world

  Mother Teresa

  Religious, Prayer, Opportunity

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• To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, White, Race

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Self, Parent, Including

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.35, Bantam

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• Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Reader, Register

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.56, Bantam

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• H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I have come to believe that it pays to make all your layouts project a feeling of good taste, provided that you do it unobtrusively. An ugly layout suggests an ugly product. There are very few products which do not benefit from being given a first class ticket through life.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, Class, Feelings

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together, all of us who pray for peace together, are a small minority, but a powerful spiritual fellowship. Our power is beyond our numbers.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Powerful, Numbers

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.100, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

  George Carlin

  Play, Creating, Roles

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• And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

  Jimmy Carter

  Wish, World, Ill

  "Carter: 'At stake is nothing less than our nation's soul'". Speech at the Democratic National Convention, edition.cnn.com. July 27, 2004.

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• You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wind, Fingers, Democrat

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• We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Events, Roles, World

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.

  Ken Robinson

  Passion, People, Achievement

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• In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

  Marc Benioff

  Years, People, Philanthropy

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• Never underestimate the power of a good story.

  John P. Kotter

  Liars, Stories, Good Story

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.68, Harvard Business Press

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• I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

  Larry McMurtry

  Mistake, Careers, People

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Cadillac Jack: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

  Candice Olson

  Thinking, Light, People

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• Men never fail to underestimate women.

  Zhao Yun

  Men, Failing

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• One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Profound, Intolerance, Liberalism

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• You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Influence

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• You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Tactics, Miles

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

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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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• You can't underestimate anyone.

  Serena Williams

  Source: www.tennis-x.com

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• I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.

  Ali Sina

  Giving, Laughing, Psychology

  Source: myislam.dk

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• In show business, never underestimate the power of saying "no".

  Doc Brown

  Saying No, Shows, Show Business

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's

  Deborah Tannen

  Overestimate

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• Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Groups, World, Individual

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