Underestimated Quotes - Page 4

• We've all been underestimated at times. That's life.

  Abby Huntsman

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

  Jan Struther

  Democracy, Ordinary, Citizens

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Healing, Doors, Perfect

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• Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

  Starhawk

  Wise, Adventure, Magic

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

  Tobsha Learner

  Distance, Long, Novelists

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and its inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within. Falling Out of Time is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to be underestimated.

  Ian Sansom

  Book, Fall, Journey

  "Falling Out of Time by David Grossman - review" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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• One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Shapes, Narrative

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• Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Knowing, Adverse Effects, Hatred

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• Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Believe, Compassion, Lasts

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• Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.

  Geraldine Laybourne

  Consumers

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• Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.

  Paul Romer

  Ideas, Add, Generations

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• I can assure you the National Federation is an organization of Republican women whose power, prestige, perception, and purpose will never be underestimated by anyone.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Organization, Perception, Purpose

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1977). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I had the good fortune to direct my first professional production with one of my Dad's masterpieces, The Man Who Came To Dinner. What it taught me was how beautifully the Kaufman and Hart plays are constructed: with economy, and wit, and warmth, and a sensibility, and heart/Hart that appeals to every stripe of theatregoers. It was a gift that can't be underestimated.

  Chris Hart

  Dad, Heart, Men

  Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org

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• You must also understand us - always undervalued, underestimated, not believed. Even when we believed, you didn't believe us. You said, 'How is it possible to fight without violence?' But without violence we obtained freedom.

  Indira Gandhi

  Believe, Fighting, Violence

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn't happen. The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don't see the Taliban coming back in any way.

  Ahmed Rashid

  People, Support, Population

  Source: progressive.org

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• I believe [Dean Martin] is underestimated as a vocalist only because it seemed like what he was doing looked easy - but it isn't and it stands the test of time.

  Michael Buble

  Believe, Tests, Easy

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream. Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

  Robert Englund

  Dream, People, Scary

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career.

  John Kasich

  Careers, Happened

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• Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

  Randy Pausch

  Trying, Hips, Surface

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• We have never said that the fight against the Iranian aggression and against the expansionist Persian tendencies (which have been demonstrated by various means under successive regimes in Iran) is the decisive battle for the Arabs. What we have said, and still say, is that the fight against Zionism is the main decisive battle for the Arabs. This is a great objective reality, which cannot be denied or underestimated except by someone who would not only harm the Arab nation and its main causes, but would also overlook the main danger.

  Saddam Hussein

  Mean, Fighting, Reality

  "President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day", Baghdad : Dar al-Ma'mun for Translation and Pub, 1981.

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• The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.

  Andre Michel Lwoff

  Flower, Data, Bed

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• I think Frank Mir was 100 percent underestimated and I'm really happy to see the result because I think we needed it in the heavyweight division.

  Shawn Tompkins

  Thinking, Heavyweights, Division

  Source: fiveouncesofpain.com

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• The Republicans underestimated and underestimated and underestimated Donald Trump. And look where that got them. They kept saying, no, no, no, that's not going to happen, we don't have to worry about that.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Worry, Saying No, Looks

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• As for the eastern part of the former Soviet Union, the picture is rather uniform. Authoritarian structures prevail to differing extents. But we can still determine certain regularities, and the role of Russia is not to be underestimated. It is clear that we would have the same situation in Tajikistan and, let's say, Uzbekistan without the direct influence of Russia.

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Uzbekistan, Roles

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That's why I'm so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.

  Bernie Mac

  Sports, Firsts, Taught

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