Underestimated Quotes - Page 5

• But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Woods

  Reese Witherspoon's Speech at Glamour's Women of the Year Awards, www.glamour.com. November 9, 2015.

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• If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

  Simon de Pury

  Kids, Hip Hop, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a whole, [changing] is deflation force that is being underestimated. Whether each person thinks of it in the context of the word deflation ... what they think of it is, "Hard to hold my margin. I'm under margin pressure. I'm under sales pressure. I'm under cost pressure."

  Ken Moelis

  Thinking, Cost, Pressure

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.

  Nina Turner

  Thinking, Class, America

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Opportunity, Awards, People

  Serzh Sargsyan's address to the Conference dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's Arbitral Award, November 23, 2010.

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• Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific community is even suggesting that the animals might even be "Irish-smart.".

  Jon Stewart

  Smart, Animal, Intelligent

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• I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds.

  J. Robbins

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

  Tamara Mellon

  Men, Careers, Tough Person

  "Tamara Mellon's New York Life" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Commitment, Past, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

  Sienna Miller

  Thinking, People, Way

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• It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.

  David Cone

  Baseball, Thinking, Player

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• One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spheres, Poor, Originals

  "The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga".

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• We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

  Heinz Guderian

  Country, Revenge, Military

  "Images of Kursk : History's Greatest Tank Battle, July 1943". Book by Nikolas Cornish, p. 6, 2002.

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• I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them

  Saddam Hussein

  Loss, Land, Iraq

  "Saddam goes on TV to rally troops", www.cnn.com. March 24, 2003.

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• Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.

  Pink

  Looks, Guessing, Mistaken

  Song: Fuckin' Perfect

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• But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.

  Marina Keegan

  Love, Lonely, Discovery

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

  Dava Sobel

  Kings, Distance, Enemy

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• The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice

  Bob Benson

  Self Confidence, Frustration, Practice

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• Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Past, Light, Justice

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• The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.

  Tim Ferriss

  Children, Work, Research

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• Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.

  Brian Wansink

  Desks, Found, Participation

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• [In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Violence, Looks

  Dick Cheney's Remarks at the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize Luncheon Followed by Q&A, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 19, 2006.

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• Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

  Conrad Black

  Greed, Opinion, Has Beens

  "The World According to Conrad Black". www.thestar.com. March 11, 2007.

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