Quotes with underestimate

  • Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Booker T. Washington To those of my race 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'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
    Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2012) 690
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Mario Puzo A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.
    De Peetvader p. 391
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Arthur Scargill All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Bobby Flay 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
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • A. A. Milne Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bill Maris Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Busy Philipps I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Gregory Nunn Never underestimate the value of cold cash.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Robert H. Schuller Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Anthony Robbins Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Paul Auster One should never underestimate the power of books.
    The Brooklyn Follies (2008) 139
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Bill Gates People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Leo Buscaglia Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Bill Gates We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Beth Brooke What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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