Top 100 Estimate Quotes
#1. These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men ...
Sun Tzu
#2. He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others
Elliot Perlman
#3. I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.
William Shakespeare
#4. I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.
Sam Altman
#5. A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.
R. H. Tawney
#6. Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday.
Orison Swett Marden
#7. Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.
William Nordhaus
#8. I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.
Jim Watt
#9. As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards. To love is to value.
Ayn Rand
#10. Who can estimate the wealth of worth caged in a little child?
Evangeline Booth
#11. Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.
Harriet Martineau
#12. effect the exchange of labor and services by means of an exchange of heartbeats. estimate every task in terms of heartbeats-the monetary unit of the future, in which all individuals are equally wealthy. take 365 times 317 as the median number of heartbeats in any twenty-four-hour period.
Velimir Khlebnikov
#13. I estimate that 75% of those organizations using Scrum will not succeed in getting the benefits that they hope for from it.
Ken Schwaber
#14. Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost.
Dave Barry
#15. Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#17. One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.
David Dreman
#18. Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.
John Leo
#19. We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.
Arthur C. Clarke
#20. I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
Karl Marx
#21. You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.
Anne Bronte
#22. One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.
Carl Zimmer
#23. Had stood there silently, watching, without interest or purpose, like a chemical compound on a photographic plate, absorbing visual shapes because they were there to be absorbed, but unable ever to form any estimate of the objects of her vision.
Ayn Rand
#24. The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a sort of instinct, often without being able to give a reason for it.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
#26. People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
Andrew Davies
#27. Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
P.G. Wodehouse
#28. You can't rightly estimate what a man will do when he's in drink.
Agatha Christie
#29. If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
Samuel Johnson
#30. For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.
Walter J. Phillips
#31. In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.
Jurgen Habermas
#32. The mode of the posterior distribution for is 0.9, equal to the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE), and the 95% credible interval extends from 0.59 to 0.98.
Michael D. Lee
#33. According to one estimate, one-third of all the books sold in Germany between 1518 and 1525 were written by Luther.
Judith Shulevitz
#34. Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.
Peter Drucker
#36. (On one estimate, the adult human brain stores about one billion bits - a couple of orders of magnitude less than a low-end smartphone.
Nick Bostrom
#37. Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.
Grover Cleveland
#38. At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.
Philip Slater
#39. Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.
Xaviera Hollander
#40. Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self-dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face.
Steven Pressfield
#41. That was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble.
Jeff VanderMeer
#42. Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
Robert G. Ingersoll
#43. And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen
#44. It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.
Charles Dickens
#45. A good estimate is an estimate that provides a clear enough view of the project reality to allow the project leadership to make good decisions about how to control the project to hit its targets.
Steve McConnell
#46. At least 3% of the signers of the Constitution must have been gay, since that's the low estimate for any population sample. It was probably higher, given that they were a pretty talented bunch and wore wigs.
Robert Scheer
#47. Humans rarely choose things in absolute terms. We don't have an internal value meter that tells us how much things are worth. Rather, we focus on the relative advantage of one thing over another, and estimate value accordingly.
Dan Ariely
#48. Men are so constituted that they derive their conviction of their own possibilities largely from the estimate formed of them by others. If nothing is expected of a people, that people will find it difficult to contradict that expectation.
Michelle Alexander
#49. The Vicar's talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which we rather hastily arrive at as an inference from our own failure.
George Eliot
#50. With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Orville Wright
#51. There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are apt to hurry both into fever.
Charlotte Bronte
#52. No less than 99.5 per cent of the world's habitable space by volume, according to one estimate, is fundamentally - in practical terms completely - off limits to us. It
Bill Bryson
#53. Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.
Henry Kett
#54. Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.
Leo Ornstein
#55. Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford II
#56. It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.
Leonard Cohen
#57. It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.
Jamie Oliver
#58. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.
Ryan Lilly
#60. We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.
John Hodgman
#61. True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
Tryon Edwards
#62. The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.
Benjamin Graham
#64. We estimate that by 2010 China will have added another 250 million subscribers, strengthening its position as the single largest mobile market in the world,
Jorma Ollila
#65. The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
E. M. Bounds
#66. Value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer.
William Shakespeare
#67. If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.
Johann Lamont
#68. Bible scholars estimate that there were about 2.5 million Israelites who left Egypt healed, healthy and whole. That was and still is God's will for His people today - all healed, healthy and whole.
Joseph Prince
#69. Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone ... There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#70. Illiteracy was the usual condition in sixteenth-century England, to be sure. According to one estimate at least 70 percent of men and 90 percent of women of the period couldn't even sign their names. But as one moved up the social scale, literacy rates rose appreciably.
Bill Bryson
#71. I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
Daniel Kahneman
#72. The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Friedrich Schiller
#73. We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. Humility is the proper estimate of oneself. CHARLES SPURGEON
Andrew Murray
#75. Social scientists estimate that about 70 percent of our happiness stems from our relationships, both quantity and quality, with friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors. During life's difficult patches, camaraderie blunts our misery; during the good times, it boosts our happiness.
Eric Weiner
#76. Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
Orison Swett Marden
#77. It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.
Willa Cather
#78. Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
Dan Lipinski
#79. Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30 ...
Albina Fabiani
#80. She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate.
Henny Youngman
#81. Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.
David Kay
#82. In traveling, there is nothing like dissecting people's statements, which are usually colored by their estimate of the powers or likings of the person spoken to, making all reasonable inquiries, and then pertinaciously but quietly carrying out one's own plans.
Isabella L. Bird
#83. You might be a redneck if you need an estimate from your barber before you get a haircut.
Jeff Foxworthy
#84. The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.
Frank William Taussig
#85. Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.
Andy Rooney
#87. When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.
Phyllis Diller
#88. The United Nations has estimated that there are 5,000 honor killings a year, almost all in the Muslim world. But that estimate appears too low, because so many of the executions are disguised as accidents or suicides.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#89. Never under estimate a pretty little liar.
Sara Shepard
#90. No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.
Joyce Cary
#91. The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.
Philip Morrison
#92. Someone said: I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#94. Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.
Auguste Comte
#95. Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#96. For when it is in the hope of making a priceless discovery that we desire to receive certain impressions from nature or from works of art, we have qualms lest our soul imbibe inferior impressions which might lead us to form a false estimate of the value of Beauty.
Marcel Proust
#97. Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.
Sun Tzu
#98. These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
Gale Norton
#99. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
Samuel Johnson
#100. Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.
Denis Waitley
