Top 100 Estimate Quotes
#1. Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation ...
William Rothenstein
#2. There is no value-judgment more important to a man
no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation
than the estimate he passes on himself.
Nathaniel Branden
#3. Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.
Steven Levitan
#4. No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.
Mary Somerville
#5. There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
Charles Dudley Warner
#6. The large and rising offshore wealth translates to substantial losses in fiscal revenue. By my estimate, the fraud perpetuated through unreported foreign accounts each year costs about $200 billion to governments throughout the world (see fig.
Gabriel Zucman
#7. So far, the results confirm the folklore: Programmers seem to be a bit more productive after they've done the estimate themselves, compared to cases in which the manager did it without even consulting them. When the two did the estimating together, the results tended to fall in between.
Tom DeMarco
#8. People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the nearest pajama size.
Barbara Kingsolver
#9. Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
Samuel Johnson
#10. I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my failings and limitations, in these dark days. I have learnt to hope that if there be a Judgment Day of some kind, God will not see us with our own eyes, nor judge us as we judge ourselves.
Vera Brittain
#11. It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.
Calvin Coolidge
#12. I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
Stephen Hawking
#13. The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration
Helmut Schmid
#14. The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
Adam Sedgwick
#15. I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special
W. Edwards Deming
#16. If you value the world simply for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value to it by what it can get out of you ... If you pursue truth, people will be true to you.
Arthur Twining Hadley
#17. Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.
Ilka Chase
#18. We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.
Jan Egeland
#19. I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate.
Luis De Guindos
#20. I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.
Markus Zusak
#21. There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America ... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere.
Edward Ball
#22. Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?
Bertrand Russell
#23. No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
Samuel Johnson
#24. Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.
Alexander Hamilton
#25. When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout.
Sun Tzu
#26. Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
Margaret Truman Daniel
#27. no mathematical formula or econometric estimate can tell us exactly what tax rate ought to be applied to what level of income. Only collective deliberation and democratic experimentation can do that.
Thomas Piketty
#28. The North Pole, but to someone looking from the equator, it appears to lie just at the horizon. From the difference in the apparent position of the North Star in Egypt and Greece, Aristotle even quoted an estimate that the distance
Stephen Hawking
#29. A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
Marcel Proust
#30. To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
Mark Twain
#31. As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.
Samuel Johnson
#32. The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
Blaise Pascal
#33. To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#34. The measure of a man's estimate of your strength," he finally told them, "is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.
Isabel Wilkerson
#35. For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.
William S. Burroughs
#36. One scholar used sales figures from the French company Hennessy to estimate that Kim's annual cognac budget before the sanctions could have been as high as $800,000 a year.
Anonymous
#37. The human mind tends to estimate the probability of an event from the ease with which it can recall examples, and scenes of carnage are more likely to be beamed into our homes and burned into our memories than footage of people dying of old age.
Steven Pinker
#38. We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,
his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,
fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence with them.
Hudson Taylor
#40. When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#41. Suddenly, I began to wonder: If one in three or four American women had an abortion at some time in her life
a common statistical estimate, even in those days of illegality
then why, WHY should this single surgical procedure be deemed a criminal act?
Gloria Steinem
#42. There is no reliable data on the number of military-style assault weapons in private hands, but the working estimate is about 1.5 million.
Chris Hedges
#43. It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, 'Know thyself,' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
George Eliot
#44. By one estimate, your five senses take in 11,000,000 bits of information per second, of which you consciously process about 40 (Wilson, 2002).
David G. Myers
#45. Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.
Kurt Hahn
#46. Sometimes I am stunned at my capacity as a nine-year-old, to understand my entrapment and escape it... Where did I find the courage to rebel, to change my life, live alone? I don't want to over-estimate all this, but damn it, I love that nine-year-old, whoever in hell he was.
Ray Bradbury
#47. How many mothers have emerged from a family trip to a Disney movie and been obliged to explain the facts of death to their sobbing young? A conservative estimate: the tens of millions, since the studio's first animated feature, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' premiered in 1937.
Richard Corliss
#48. Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.
Lillie Devereux Blake
#49. Women do not give a very favorable estimate of their appearance
Sunday Adelaja
#50. I can safely say that there are dozens of places on 'Titania' to watch a film with friends. I would estimate there's something like 50 televisions on board, some of which are very big-screen, some of which drop out of ceilings on the outdoor decks.
John Caudwell
#51. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men, but count everything in the estimate of God. Paul
Oswald Chambers
#52. The contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be ... between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%.
Claude Lorius
#53. If it is a book, do not leave it without being able to sum it up and to estimate its value.
Antonin Sertillanges
#55. Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are.
Michael J. Gelb
#56. I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#57. Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work
Chinmayananda Saraswati
#58. She thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.
Jane Austen
#59. Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.
Theresa May
#60. Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.
Didier Sornette
#61. I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
Gail Collins
#62. Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed.
Elizabeth Warren
#63. It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#64. And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#65. It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers
Fred Brooks
#66. We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.
John Bolton
#67. Fusion power is speculative and experimental. I think it is reckless to assume that the fusion problem will be cracked, but I'm happy to estimate how much power fusion could deliver, if the problems are cracked.
David J. C. MacKay
#68. The only way to reduce the variability in the estimate is to reduce the variability in the project.
Steve McConnell
#69. He no longer had an accurate visual memory of the size of the moon in the sky, and so he could not estimate how many times larger the cloud was.
Neal Stephenson
#70. It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.
Bill Gurley
#71. We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience
Honore De Balzac
#72. Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.
Leo Burnett
#73. True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
Augustus William Hare
#74. Worshipped was that of Mammon. It is difficult to estimate the size of monastic occupation. At the time it was believed that the clergy owned one third of the land, but it may be safe to presume that the monks controlled one sixth of English territory.
Peter Ackroyd
#75. If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
Walter Lippmann
#76. It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
A.J. Liebling
#77. My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US).
John Gofman
#78. The author finds any freaking, and remarkably objective, way to estimate religion's influence on American society before the Civil War. The population closely aligned with evangelical sympathies was three or four times the size of the voting population in 1860
Mark A. Noll
#79. The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based not on how often the event has actually occurred, but on how vivid the past examples are.
Benjamin Graham
#80. Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.
Guy Finley
#81. Anyone who sang the praises of undying love in this day and age belonged to the first rank of hypocrites in Daisuke's estimate.
Soseki Natsume
#82. By a conservative estimate, twelve million people perished in the Nazi concentration camps. Most were murdered in cold blood, but countless others died by starvation, illness, and suicide.
Miklos Nyiszli
#83. A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year ... and under-estimate what he can do in five.
Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
#84. In every analysis you need to isolate what the real assets are and you must not forget to examine the franchise to do business, to review the character and competence of the management and to estimate the outcome if the whole business had to be turned into cash.
Peter Cundill
#85. And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.
Frank Carlucci
#86. We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you.
Simon Singh
#87. Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
George Eliot
#88. We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#89. It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.
Havilah Babcock
#90. Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago.
*Typo: "destiny" should read "density.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#91. many teams that say they have an estimation problem actually have a negotiation problem. A manager asks for an estimate. The team says, "That will take four days." The manager makes a counteroffer, "Can you make it two?" This is no longer a discussion about estimates. It's a negotiation.
Elisabeth Hendrickson
#92. I estimate the number [of incest victims] to be somewhere between ten and twenty million Americans...
Susan Forward
#93. You cannot build ships in a hurry with a Supplementary Estimate. Admiral Sir J. A. Fisher to Lord Charles Beresford. 27th February 1902.
Stephen Wentworth Roskill
#94. Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
Samuel Smiles
#95. It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.
Mark Twain
#96. It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.
Francisco J. Ayala
#97. Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
Alvin Plantinga
#98. I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.
Tim Lee
#99. Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who could command such a combination of insight, technique and power.
Henry Hallett Dale
#100. Mueller and Stewart estimate that expenditures on domestic homeland security (i.e., not counting the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan) have increased by more than $1 trillion since 9/11,
Glenn Greenwald
