Overestimate Quotes - Page 2

• You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Enemy

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• When you're leading, you're generally trying to lead change, and I think it was Roy Amara, who said about technology, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." And I think the same applies to change within an organization.

  Harry West

  Running, Technology, Thinking

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

  David Brooks

  People, Miracle, Series

  David Brooks (2011). “The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens”, p.21, Short Books

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• Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

  William Ellery Channing

  Sweet, Love Is, Romance

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• No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

  H. L. Mencken

  Years, People, Records

  Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.

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• It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.

  David Nicholls

  Teenage, Drama, Appetite

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• Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Principles, Thanks

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.357, Princeton University Press

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• If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Demand, Accomplish, Ifs

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• I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

  Michael J. Fox

  Long, Challenges, Rooms

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• The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

  Freeman Dyson

  Als, Global Warming, Opportunist

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• People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

  David House

  Time, Stress, Long

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• Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's

  Deborah Tannen

  Underestimate

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• People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Character, Thinking

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• My one concern is that Hu Jintao may overestimate how much power China has in Pyongyang. They have - they do have influence, and they do have companies, and they do have economic relationships that could make life much more difficult in the north. Their balancing act is, "How much worse can we make it in the north without creating that which scares us more than anything, which is a collapse in the north." And then what happens to all those nuclear weapons. So they're going to work very hard to avoid that.

  Robert M. Gates

  Scare, Influence, Economic

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.

  Tony Robbins

  Wisdom, Thinking, Years

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• High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

  H. L. Mencken

  Suffering, Humanitarianism

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• Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Lazy, Looks, Use

  Source: fpmt.org

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• The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Light, Dust, Sea

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• If [Ho Chi Minh] had had carte blanche over his movement, would the results of the war have been different? That is difficult to say. In some cases - as in 1945 and 1946, he appeared to overestimate the possibility that the United States might decide to recognize his government and the independence of the DRV (although to be fair, from the outset he had warned that Washington might eventually decide to align with the French because of the Cold War).

  William J. Duiker

  War, Government, Independence

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Winning, Circles, Hints

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• People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.

  John Stossel

  Independent, Self, People

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• In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

  Marc Benioff

  Years, People, Underestimate

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• I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.

  Pema Chodron

  Thinking, Wish, Accepting

  "You Are Worthy of Love" by Lodro Rinzler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2013.

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• You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge.

  Udo Di Fabio

  Judging

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would like to go back in time and remind myself that when you're working in music field, it's very easy to overestimate how much of yourself you have to give. It's obviously a competitive field, and it's hard work, and it matters if it's something that you care about, so you have to really pour yourself into it. But I wish I had been more aware of my limits when I was younger. I wish I had understood better that everyone is going to be looking out for their own interests, but the only person who is looking out for your best interests is you.

  Jenn Wasner

  Hard Work, Giving, Wish

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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