Underestimate Quotes - Page 11

• Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them.

  Dale Jamieson

  Distance, Mean, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Tactics, Miles

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• It is easy to underestimate how much there is a growing awareness that there is a deep sexism in politics, there is a deep sexism in the workplace generally in America and Donald Trump has come to signify that and Hillary Clinton has come to signify the women that have to work hard, prepare more, show up earlier and go home later, work twice as hard to get the same results as men do in the same game.

  Charlie Pickering

  Hard Work, Home, Men

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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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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• I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

  Jane Alison

  Writing, Letters

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Ireland is a place that's beautiful and interesting, but I remember when I went there as a teenager with my parents, I was like, "Okay, I'll go to Ireland with my parents. It's going to be green." I think people underestimate it, in that it's, "Oh, it's green," and then you get there, and it's like, "Wow, it is green!" It's, "Oh, there's Irish music," and then you get there, and you're like, "Oh, this Irish music is amazing!" You underestimate it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Beautiful, Teenager, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm quite optimistic when it comes to the capacity of our people to have an honest discussion about what's really going on. What do you think John McCain's candidacy was about? And the early days of Bill Bradley's candidacy? People are hungry for a genuine, no-spin set of ideas and truths. They want their leaders to tell it like it is. There is a great demand for this. Politicians continually underestimate the ability of the American public to understand what's happening to them and what the real choices are.

  Robert Reich

  Real, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

  Brian Herbert

  Mean, Science, Reality

  "Dune: House Harkonnen". Book by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, 2000.

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• Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

  John Mayer

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• Never underestimate the power of a good story.

  John P. Kotter

  Liars, Stories, Good Story

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.68, Harvard Business Press

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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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• Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

  George Carlin

  Play, Creating, Roles

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Self, Parent, Including

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.35, Bantam

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Reader, Register

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.56, Bantam

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• H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I have come to believe that it pays to make all your layouts project a feeling of good taste, provided that you do it unobtrusively. An ugly layout suggests an ugly product. There are very few products which do not benefit from being given a first class ticket through life.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, Class, Feelings

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together, all of us who pray for peace together, are a small minority, but a powerful spiritual fellowship. Our power is beyond our numbers.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Powerful, Numbers

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.100, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

  Dorothy Day

  Glasses, Get Up, Holy

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• People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Song, Careers, People

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• Never underestimate the booberie of the booboisie.

  H. L. Mencken

  Never Underestimate

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• To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, White, Race

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.

  Brandy Clark

  Country, Thinking, Audience

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• Don't underestimate yourself. You are capable of more than you can ever imagine.

  Les Brown

  Imagine, Capable

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• Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.

  John Howard

  World, September, Should

  "Spy boss warns of terror strike" by Grant Holloway, www.cnn.com. August 13, 2003.

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• It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Mistake, People, Political

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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