Underestimate Quotes - Page 17

• To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

  Warren Beatty

  California, People, Pay

  Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Competition, Antagonist

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• All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.

  Patrick Swayze

  Nice, Simple, Two

  "Fictional character: Dalton". "Road House", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Numbers, Individual

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• De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

  Saul Bellow

  Democratic, Impulse, Well Being

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  People

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• Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Success, Self Confidence, Winning

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• The Growth and Opportunity Project is the most successful reexamination of a national party in modern times. Te disciplined focus of Chairman Reince Priebus has turned its suggestions into realities that are changing the political setting of elections. No one should underestimate the boldness of these changes and the courage they took.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Successful, Opportunity

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• Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Loss, Funny Things, Important

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Oct 28, 2012

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• Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

  Marya Hornbacher

  Desire, Want, Enough

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• I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

  Markus Zusak

  Race, Humans, Human Race

  Markus Zusak (2008). “The Book Thief”, p.554, Random House

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• Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

  Jennifer Fallon

  Men, Perfectly Good, Noble

  Jennifer Fallon (2008). “Warlord: Book Six of the Hythrun Chronicles”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

  Steven Pinker

  Numbers, People, World

  "Proud atheists". Salon Interview, www.salon.com. October 15, 2007.

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• It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.

  Suze Orman

  Real, Home, Cost

  "Suze Orman: Are you making these financial mistakes". Article by Suze Orman, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2010.

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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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• There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Talking, People, Information

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• Don't underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever.

  Ron Fournier

  Technology, Crowds, Voters

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• Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.

  Bobby Flay

  Trying, Tables, Rooms

  Bobby Flay (2007). “Bobby Flay's Boy Gets Grill: 125 Reasons to Light Your Fire!”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

  Neil Simon

  Stimulation, Eccentricity, Never Underestimate

  Neil Simon (1988). “Biloxi Blues”, Signet

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• Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Letters, Wells, Written

  "The Jane Austen Book Club". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Compassion, Broken

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, World, World War 2

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• This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Technology, Reality

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• Yes, but you are still only human.” I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to shudder as though in the throes of birth pangs. “So was Van Helsing, yet in every movie, he beat the vampire in the end. Never underestimate the power of humanity.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Rocks, Humanity, Vampire

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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, Forgotten, Dangerous

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

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