Often Underestimated Quotes

#1. Photographer shoots Sutton in close-up, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway behind his head. The expressway was built while Sutton was in prison. God what a monstrosity, Sutton says. I didn't think they could make Brooklyn uglier. I underestimated them.

J.R. Moehringer

#2. I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.

Alan Bennett

#3. Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

Starhawk

#4. But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.

Reese Witherspoon

#5. Maybe my intuition has been warning me about something I don't quite understand but shouldn't be underestimated. ...

Nicholas Sparks

#6. I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.

Amie Kaufman

#7. Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

Kofi Annan

#8. It's always good to be underestimated.

Donald Trump

#9. I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.

Hermann Hesse

#10. The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

Jan Struther

#11. I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

Viggo Mortensen

#12. Most fires made by underestimated sparks, the greatness fire inside ourselves is lit by the spark of the change, came across a small corner in our souls where the conscience still whispering.

Ammar Moussa

#13. I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

Laila Ali

#14. John A. Templer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of the definitive (and, it must be said, almost only) scholarly text on the subject, The Staircase: Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design, suggests that all fall-injury figures are probably severely underestimated anyway.

Bill Bryson

#15. Silence is often underestimated

Timur Vermes

#16. Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.

Jeremy Gilley

#17. The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Salman Rushdie

#18. All children should be loved, protected, nurtured
emotionally and intellectually
respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.

Augusten Burroughs

#19. I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

Sienna Miller

#20. I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

Nicolas Roeg

#21. Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force.

Serzh Sargsyan

#22. Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

Emmett Tyrrell

#23. Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the nuclear industry.

Joseph Rotblat

#24. I thought the whole thing with Blake would ruin this afternoon, but I had underestimated the magnetism of Daemon and his kisses.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#25. Obama had campaigned against Bush's ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama had perhaps underestimated the extent to which he had inherited George W. Bush's presidency - the apparatus, personnel and mind-set of war making.

Bob Woodward

#26. In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up.

Gloria Steinem

#27. Well what? said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don't know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away.

Brian McGreevy

#28. People who underestimated you were easier to manipulate.

Brandon Sanderson

#29. Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Jim Morrison

#30. You have more control than I've given you credit for. I underestimated you, Muse. Yah think?

Pippa DaCosta

#31. The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

Frederick Forsyth

#32. My mind is still reeling from a man of the cloth saying 'chicks you have banged'. I think I may have underestimated this Father. He appears to know in the ways of the youth.

Alex Dunkin

#33. I saw a door that said exit only. So I entered through it and went up to the guy working there and said "I have good news. You have severely underestimated that door over there. By like a hundred percent."

Demetri Martin

#34. [Donald] Trump is underestimated greatly in terms of his understanding and comprehension of the great issues facing America. He understands trade. He's got businesses all over the world. He understands currency and how manipulating currency can be damaging to America.

Jeff Sessions

#35. I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.

Lapo Elkann

#36. Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

Julianna Baggott

#37. Frankly, my height or lack thereof never bothered me much. Although there is no doubt that it has contributed to a certain mental toughness. I've made the most of the head start one gains from being underestimated.

Michael J. Fox

#38. But she underestimated me. I played my cards, I laid in wait, I let myself be beaten and manipulated. If she keeps that promise she made to me, I'll show her the truth I've learned on her boat. I don't just raise monsters. I am one.

Emily Skrutskie

#39. As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

Helen Fisher

#40. There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

Scott Lynch

#41. That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

Rem Koolhaas

#42. The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.

Bob Crow

#43. Johnny Rivers is underestimated as an artist. We had four top 10 singles.

Lou Adler

#44. Patience is grossly underestimated.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#45. Chains used to claim that there's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#46. Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed.

Charles Medawar

#47. The miraculous power of love has often been underestimated just like we underestimate the power of sleep. Most of the herculean tasks performed by men were possible because they had been deeply in love and had slept well the night before.

Vivek Pereira

#48. Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived ... The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated.

Edmar Mednis

#49. Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

William L. Jenkins

#50. Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

Erin Morgenstern

#51. Words were the most powerful tool. Simple and so often underestimated. They could heal. They could destroy. from Onyx

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#52. I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.

Christopher Nolan