Underestimate Quotes - Page 19

• You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, Water, People

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• A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Optimistic, Risk, Definitions

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• No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Insecurity, Gone

  Dan Savage (2002). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America”, E P Dutton

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• Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.

  Evan Davis

  Country, Space, Order

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• Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

  Sherrod Brown

  Children, Cutting, Compassion

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• I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Importance, Humans

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.130, Taylor Trade Publications

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• We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Distance, Skills, Luck

  "Beware of Other-Optimizing". lesswrong.com. April 10, 2009.

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• All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

  Arthur Scargill

  Coal Miners, Economic, Trade

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• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  Ralph Regula

  Impact, Ideas, People

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• The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

  Watchman Nee

  Ideas, Waste, Christianity

  Watchman Nee (2006). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.185, Hendrickson Publishers

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• If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

  Ralph Peters

  Hatred, West, Collectives

  Ralph Peters (2001). “Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph?”, p.13, Stackpole Books

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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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• There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

  Laozi

  Opponents, Danger, Greater

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• We did not underestimate what we could do.

  Barry Alvarez

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• Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.

  George Soros

  Great Inventions, Needs, Looks

  Interview with Mark Shapiro, September 05, 2000.

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• Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Bodybuilding, Pull Ups, Size

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• I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.

  Billy Wilder

  School, Law, Class

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• How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophy, Taken, Science

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• If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

  Song: Dear Landlord, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967

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• The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should start the engagement process. Once you know this, the nature of the relationship changes. You view actions differently, the pressure to have sex increases, and your relationship with others is affected. If you're considering getting engaged, write out the sentence Staying married is hard work fifty times. ...Though I say this with some humor, I think these points bear repeating: Don't underestimate the work involved, but don't panic either.

  Kay Coles James

  Sex, Hard Work, Writing

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• People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

  Daniel Yergin

  Technology, Impact, People

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• I have one thing to say to those non-believers. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion.

  Rudy Tomjanovich

  Motivational, Basketball, Heart

  Rudy Tomjanovich (1997). “A Rocket at Heart: My Life and My Team”

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• No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

  Laozi

  Risk, Enemy, Taoism

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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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• One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Errors, Serious, May

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