Estimation Quotes

• Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

  Abigail Adams

  Integrity, Honor, Littles

  "Character and the IRS" by Terry Newell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2013.

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• Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Appreciation, Believe, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.103

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• The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Effectiveness, Important

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• You need judgment, you need to utilize conventional resource-allocation analysis, you have to work backward from estimations of the market to the current investments and you have to do some benchmarking of your product and its potential against your competition.

  John Kao

  Competition, Needs, Analysis

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Feelings, Wish, Quality

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• Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

  Michael Pollan

  Self, Shapes, Size

  Michael Pollan (2013). “A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder”, p.9, Random House

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• A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Determination, World, Prudence

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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• The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them.

  Steve McConnell

  Target, Purpose, Outcomes

  Steve McConnell (2006). “Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art”, p.54, Microsoft Press

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• There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

  Joseph Alleine

  World, States, Evidence

  Joseph Alleine (2000). “An Alarm to the Unconverted”, p.22, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There will always be people with disabilities. And by my estimation, the scorecard for the way we take care of those who need our help the most, those at the very bottom of that safety net, is pretty dismal. And that has to change.

  William H. Macy

  People, Safety, Way

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Littles, Fool, Poor

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.32, e-artnow

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• It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

  Josh Billings

  Forgiveness, Jobs, Men

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• It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

  Ben Jonson

  Hypocrisy, Dear

  Ben Jonson (1752). “Every Man in His Humour: A Comedy. Written by Ben Jonson. With Alterations and Additions. As it is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane”, p.18

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• If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Knowledge, Science, Limits

  Rudolf Virchow, Frank CHANCE (1860). “Cellular Pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology. Twenty lectures delivered in ... 1858. Translated from the second edition of the original by F. Chance. With notes and numerous emendations principally from MS. notes of the author, and illustrated by ... engravings on wood.”, p.10

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• In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of his equipment facilities. If greater progress were to be made it would be necessary to construct new and different equipment especially designed to measure the cosmic static.

  Grote Reber

  Discovery, Progress, Important

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• [Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

  G. H. Hardy

  Triumph, May, Study

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• The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religion, Ornaments, Would Be

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.20, 谷月社

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• There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Trying, Way

  Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.163, Penguin

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• There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

  Annie Dillard

  Feelings, Quality, Progress

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Courage, Peace, Integrity

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• We’re looking for anything to do with the Rod of Time. (Sin) Rod of Time, Forsaken Moon, Tablet of Destiny…you Sumerians really liked your hokey terms, huh? (Kat) They didn’t exactly ask my opinion before they named them. (Sin) Good, ‘cause my estimation of your intellect would be seriously scarred if they had. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moon, Destiny, Would Be

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• A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

  Stephen King

  Past, Idiot, Persons

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

  Fred Allen

  Life, Men, Objectivity

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• And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes.

  Jess Walter

  Regret, Thinking, Dexterity

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Women, People, History

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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