Underestimate Quotes - Page 18

• If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

  Ralph Peters

  Hatred, West, Collectives

  Ralph Peters (2001). “Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph?”, p.13, Stackpole Books

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• People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

  Daniel Yergin

  Technology, Impact, People

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• I have one thing to say to those non-believers. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion.

  Rudy Tomjanovich

  Motivational, Basketball, Heart

  Rudy Tomjanovich (1997). “A Rocket at Heart: My Life and My Team”

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• No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

  Laozi

  Risk, Enemy, Taoism

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• A lot of it is mental - you have to not fear your opponent. That's the number one thing, first off. Don't underestimate anybody, but don't fear anybody.

  Roxrite

  Numbers, Opponents, Firsts

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• The last thing I’d ever subscribe to are fashion rules. However, I do think that you should put effort into what you wear. Clothing is ultimately the suit of armor in which we battle the world. When you choose your clothing right, it feels good. And there’s nothing shallow about feeling good. Owning your style, however, is much more about your attitude than it is about what’s on your back. But don’t underestimate the transformational possibilities that getting dressed can afford you.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Fashion, Attitude, Thinking

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• Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Powerful, Simple, Sight

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1991). “This Earth of Mankind”, William Morrow

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• Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.

  Leon Brown

  Blessed, Purpose, Achieve

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• You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation.

  Ray Mears

  Preparation, Importance

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• You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Loneliness, Way, Moments

  "Stumptown Girl" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. January 2, 2012.

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• A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if,
  without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive accretions from
  oppressor and other cultures, they return to the upward paths of their own culture, which is
  nourished by the living reality of its environment, and which negates both harmful influences
  and any kind of subjection to foreign culture. Thus, it may be seen that if imperialist
  domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression, national liberation is necessarily
  an act of culture

  Amilcar Cabral

  Reality, Other Cultures, Practice

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• One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Errors, Serious, May

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• People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

  David House

  Time, Stress, Long

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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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• The Power of One Hail Mary can change the world. In all our efforts and endeavors, we can never underestimate the power of prayer, and must always rely upon the help of God. In a special way we commend our efforts to the Mother of God and our own Blessed Mother.

  Thomas Vose Daily

  Mother, Prayer, Blessed

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• Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

  Chris Murray

  Men, Years, Can Do

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• We must never underestimate the power of the prayer that is lifted up by wonderful saints all around the world.
  Prayer is of paramount importance in developing our relationship with our Savior and in building up and supporting others through the work of the Holy Spirit.

  Will Graham

  Prayer, Building Up, Saint

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• When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Names, People

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• To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.

  Eric Hoffer

  Serious, Originality, Sensitivity

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Warrior, Cities, People

  Reply to reader email on "The View from Chaos Manor" - personal blog, www.jerrypournelle.com. February 21, 2001.

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• No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Insecurity, Gone

  Dan Savage (2002). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America”, E P Dutton

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• We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.

  Markus Zusak

  Teenager, Book, Thinking

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