Estimation Quotes - Page 4

• In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Mistake, Luck, Weakness

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• Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.

  Steve Pavlina

  Answers, Currents, Values

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• A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and common sense now assign to it.

  Francois Arago

  Art, Peace, People

  François Arago, James Patrick MUIRHEAD (1839). “Historical Eloge of James Watt ... Translated ... with additional notes and an appendix, by James Patrick Muirhead”, p.149

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• People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

  David Miscavige

  People, Giving, Ifs

  "The Man Behind Scientology" by Thomas C. Tobin, www.sptimes.com. October 25, 1998.

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• A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases. The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life. He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth. A member of the most ancient regime in the world. One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown.

  Walter Martin

  Lying, Men, World

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• There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

  Irwin Redlener

  Cities, Events, Nuclear

  "Nuclear blast victims would have to wait". usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 13, 2010.

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• New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

  Tim LaHaye

  People, Special, Would Be

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• The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation

  James Stockdale

  Guy

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• It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Party, Personal Worth, States

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• When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Father, Believe

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jun 15, 2014

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• Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

  Enoch Powell

  Sacrifice, Self, Political

  John Enoch Powell, Richard Ritchie (1978). “A Nation Or No Nation?: Six Years in British Politics”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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• We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

  Judah Smith

  Needs, Sin, Bigger

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Sex, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3377, Delphi Classics

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• We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

  Pericles

  Fall, Needs, Delight

  "Eternal Greece". Book by Rex Warner, 1961.

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• I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about.

  John Wyndham

  Children, Ideas, Different

  John Wyndham (1953). “Out of the Deeps”

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• Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Today, Problem

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• Some of you may ask, ?Is there a single ordinance to be dispensed with? Is there one of the commandments that God has enjoined upon the people, that he will excuse them from obeying?' Not one, no matter how trifling or small in our own estimation. No matter if we esteem them non-essential, or least or last of all the commandments of the house of God, we are under obligation to observe them.

  Brigham Young

  People, House, May

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• Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual origin, that is, from the marriage of good and truth; and since, in addition, the Lord's divine proceeding principally flows into conjugal love--are most holy in the estimation of the angels.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Angel, Race

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• This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

  Mark Twain

  Mirrors, People, Glimpse

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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• The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

  Stanley Smith Stevens

  Method, Magnitude, Direct

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• A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Writing, People, Stories

  "EXCLUSIVE: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele Talk Key & Peele Series Premiere". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I will be the 43-year-old guy in the jumpsuit. In my estimation and my image of myself is that I am 23 and can get away with it. If I didn't have the show, I would be in one right now. It would be denim, but I love a terry.

  Andy Cohen

  Years, Guy, Denim

  "Bravo's Andy Cohen shares his story in the Castro". Interview with Sarah Adler, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2012.

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• The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Feet, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.130, Discovery House

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• I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

  Jean Dujardin

  What Matters, People, Labels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

  Glen Hansard

  Song, Writing, Hands

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