Underestimate Quotes - Page 16

• Do not underestimate objects.

  David Foster Wallace

  Objects

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• Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.

  Nicole Williams

  People, Interviews, Poor

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Recognizing, Never Underestimate

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Responsibility, Privilege, Increase

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.389, Penguin

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• Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Victory, Green, Enough

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• Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Size, Problem, Scope

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• We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Matter, Sparks, Way

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• It is sufficient to estimate the enemy situation correctly and to concentrate your strength to capture him. There is no more to it than this. He who lacks foresight and underestimates his enemy will surely be captured by him.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Capture, Situation

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• Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.

  Erma Bombeck

  Pain, Watches, Someone You Love

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• Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.

  Tony Bennett

  Style, Trying, Hitting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman.

  Karen Hawkins

  Never Underestimate, Bossy

  Karen Hawkins (2011). “Scandal in Scotland”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mistake, Book, Views

  "Interview with Margaret Atwood". Interview with Raymond H. Thompson, d.lib.rochester.edu. March 25, 1991.

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• I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

  Robert Darnton

  Book, World, Digital Divide

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• I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

  Billy Corgan

  Ideas, Musical, Alive

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• Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.

  Bobby Flay

  Trying, Tables, Rooms

  Bobby Flay (2007). “Bobby Flay's Boy Gets Grill: 125 Reasons to Light Your Fire!”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

  Steven Pinker

  Numbers, People, World

  "Proud atheists". Salon Interview, www.salon.com. October 15, 2007.

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• Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

  Jennifer Fallon

  Men, Perfectly Good, Noble

  Jennifer Fallon (2008). “Warlord: Book Six of the Hythrun Chronicles”, p.62, Macmillan

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• I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

  Markus Zusak

  Race, Humans, Human Race

  Markus Zusak (2008). “The Book Thief”, p.554, Random House

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• Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

  Marya Hornbacher

  Desire, Want, Enough

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• Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Loss, Funny Things, Important

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Oct 28, 2012

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• Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

  Neil Simon

  Stimulation, Eccentricity, Never Underestimate

  Neil Simon (1988). “Biloxi Blues”, Signet

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• Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Letters, Wells, Written

  "The Jane Austen Book Club". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

  Watchman Nee

  Ideas, Waste, Christianity

  Watchman Nee (2006). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.185, Hendrickson Publishers

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• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  Ralph Regula

  Impact, Ideas, People

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• All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

  Arthur Scargill

  Coal Miners, Economic, Trade

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