Overestimate Quotes - Page 4

• It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children. Research shows that during the most important transitions of life—including those periods when youth are most likely to drift away from the Church—the greatest influence does not come from an interview with the bishop or some other leader but from the regular, warm, friendly, caring interaction with parents.

  Robert D. Hales

  Children, Heart, Caring

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• You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Believe, Goal, Regulation

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• It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.

  Sam Harris

  Ignorance, Ugly, Produce

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

  Suzanne Collins

  Opponents, Underestimate, Forgotten

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.226, Scholastic UK

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• When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think they can turn everything into a "science" the way mechanics was turned into a science in the seventeeth century. They want to turn everything over to technocrats and social engineers. They become shortsighted or simplistic about their ends, and they disastrously overestimate their ability to acquire the information they need to make the needed calculations.

  Allen W. Wood

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Russia, Pressure, West

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change, digitalization and the rise of Asia. And then there's the most important one: the end of a life lived on credit. We must finally free ourselves from debt.

  Paul Achleitner

  Important, World, Asia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Capacity

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• Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Events, Roles, World

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. Sometimes this can be a painful experience. 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. By cultivating nonjudgmental openness to ourselves and to whatever arises, to our surprise and delight we will find ourselves genuinely welcoming the never-pin-downable quality of life, experiencing it as a friend, a teacher, and a support, and no longer as an enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Thinking, Painful Experiences

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• You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Done, Underestimate

  "Microsoft in the age of Satya Nadella" by Jessi Hempel, www.wired.com.

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• It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day. Perhaps it would be within bounds to say that without railroads to bind the States into one homogeneous whole, the Nation never could have attained its present size and importance.

  Charles Frederick Carter

  Would Be, Railroads, Size

  Charles Frederick Carter (1909). “When railroads were new”

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• There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

  Harvey Pekar

  Stupid, Math, Intelligent

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• People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

  Jack Welch

  People, World, Rockets

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• We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

  Albert Einstein

  Organization, Scientific Method, Experts

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.

  John von Neumann

  Teaching, Math, Thinking

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.620, World Scientific

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• When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Dream, Lonely, Fall

  Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Spirit, Impossible, Importance

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.70, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Humility, Keys

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.181, New Directions Publishing

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