Underestimate Quotes

• People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.

  

  Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
  • Underestimate
  • Runners

• Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Power
  • You
  • Underestimate

• Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Alive
  • Capacity
  • Blindness

• I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • World
  • Audience
  • Ability

• Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Power
  • Parents
  • Parent

• For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • Power
  • Future
  • Math

• [Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Power
  • Dinner
  • Motherhood

• I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Underestimate
  • Least
  • Bisexuality

• Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

  

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  • Underestimate
  • Highway
  • Wagon

• Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

  

  Sherrod Brown
  • People
  • Children
  • Compassion

• It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Mind
  • Problem
  • Track

• Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Responsibility
  • Mediocre
  • Underestimate

• Don’t overestimate me, but don’t underestimate me either

  

  Woo Ji-ho Block B
  • Underestimate
  • Overestimate

• Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Problem
  • Never
  • Deal

• Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Value
  • Never
  • Idea

• Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Reader
  • Underestimate
  • Register

• Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Underestimate
  • Overestimate

• Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Ability
  • Talk
  • Her

• We did not underestimate what we could do.

  

  Barry Alvarez
  • To Do
  • Can
  • Underestimate

• I don't want anybody to underestimate the difficulties ahead.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Difficulties
  • Underestimate

• Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.

  

  George Pattison
  • Science
  • Progress
  • Claims

• Factor of Error: Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical. (Examples: Japanese on warplanes, Russians on the bomb, Iranians on refineries, etc.)

  

  Charles Issawi
  • Ability
  • Factor
  • Advanced

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

  

  Dion
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Underestimate

• I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • People
  • Teacher
  • Planning

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