Underestimated Quotes - Page 6

• The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled by modern technology into thinking we have conquered nature. This well-written book points out in clear language that the climatic threat could be as awesome as any we might face, and that massive world-wide actions to hedge against that threat deserve immediate consideration.

  Stephen Schneider

  Book, Thinking, Technology

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• I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.

  Willie Geist

  Thinking, Iraq, President

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

  William Ralph Inge

  Civilization, Boredom, Revolution

  'End of an Age' (1948) ch. 6

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• I underestimated you, woman." ... "The cry of men down the ages.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Age, Cry

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 15, 1985.

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• I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy, about national security, about how we structure our forces and about how we use U.S. military power.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Thinking, Use

  The vice presidential debate between Vice President Cheney and Sen. John Edwards, www.washingtonpost.com. October 5, 2004.

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• An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.

  Robert Pinsky

  Couple, Reading, Mean

  "The Pause: An Underestimated Element in Poetry". poemsoutloud.net. April 14, 2009.

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• The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.

  Bob Crow

  War, Years, Achievement

  "Durham Miners' Gala: Bob Crow dismisses Labour as "history" in explosive speech" by Karen Rockett, www.mirror.co.uk. July 13, 2013.

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• I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Film, Term, Felt

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• In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.

  Roald Dahl

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, Two, Toys

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• There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Years

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 13, 2005.

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• Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

  Kofi Annan

  Believe, Fragility, Facts

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.64, Routledge

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• The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

  Frans de Waal

  Giving, Empathy, Brain

  "Do Humans Alone 'Feel Your Pain'?". The Chronicle, October 26, 2001.

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• If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

  Doris Betts

  People, Temptation, Speak

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• As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Way, Twenties

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• The generals who had called Zia a mullah behind his back felt ashamed at having underestimated him: not only was he a mullah, he was a mullah whose understanding of religion didn't go beyond parroting what he had heard from the next mullah. A mullah without a beard, a mullah in a four-star general's uniform, a mullah with the instincts of a corrupt tax inspector.

  Mohammed Hanif

  Stars, Understanding, Four

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• Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project that you care about, you probably find that your energy is boundless.

  Susan Cain

  Challenges, Trying, Energy

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• One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world.

  Yael Stone

  Culture, World, Influence

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• We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines...Why do we call [them] machines? Precisely because, like machines invented by humans to deal efficiently with the macroscopic world, these protein assemblies contain highly coordinated moving parts.

  Bruce Alberts

  Moving, Cells, Machines

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• That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Running, Acceptance, Reality

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• Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived... The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated.

  Edmar Mednis

  Play, Moments, Enormous

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• You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

  Erin McKean

  Nice, Littles, Being Nice

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• I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Weakness, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Understanding, Age

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• Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the nuclear industry.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Nuclear, Flesh, Scientist

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