Underestimate Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Distance, Skills, Luck

  "Beware of Other-Optimizing". lesswrong.com. April 10, 2009.

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  Don't underestimate the things that I will do.

  Adele

  Capable

  Song: Rolling in the Deep, Album: 21, 2011

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• I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Mind, Body, Earth

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

  Florence Nightingale

  Beauty, Healing, Effects

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• There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

  Robert Breault

  Essentials, Projects

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• Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Groups, Sometimes

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• Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

  H. L. Mencken

  Taste, Never Underestimate, Bad Taste

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• That's something that I just can't underestimate the importance of, the staff continuity. I really think that the players feed off the coaches.

  Pete Lembo

  Player, Thinking, Staff

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

  Salman Khurshid

  People, Want, Should

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• Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Don't ever underestimate the power of planning. You can't make your vision come to life unless you outline each goal-driven step at a time. And you can't reach your full potential unless you plan how to make the most of your purpose and passion. When you look around and see people who are the captains of their ship, invariably they have taken pains to chart their successful course through life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Pain, Taken, Passion

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• A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.

  Joyce Brothers

  Children, Men, Adults

  Joyce Brothers (1981). “What Every Woman Should Know About Men”, Simon & Schuster

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• We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

  Freya Stark

  Tree, Magic, Sap

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.170, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Sometimes I think I know everything, but I also underestimate what God really is.

  Dion DiMucci

  Thinking, Sometimes, Knows

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• Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility.

  Camille Paglia

  Writing, Ideas, Hands

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

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• Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

  Anita Roddick

  Bollywood, Consumerism, Blank Stares

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• There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Powerful, People, Progress

  Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “Changes: A Love Story”, p.192, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

  Sara Paretsky

  Men, Ability, Never Underestimate

  "Fictional character: Victoria "V.I." Warshawski". "V.I. Warshawski", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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