Overestimate Change Quotes

#1. To think about failure was to invite failure.

Michael Connelly

#2. By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

Jeremy Collier

#3. I looked down at the board. "The point isn't to win?" I asked. "The point," Bredon said grandly, "is to play a beautiful game.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. I have in the past tended to overestimate the amount of change I can affect in the short run and then not fully appreciate the change I can affect in the long run. And so I've learned that it's critical to think carefully about the pace of change, and it's something that I've learned the hard way.

Harry West

#5. It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Larry Page

#6. I think that the web and its various facets are incredibly useful in just building a fan base and getting your chops better.

Nick Kroll

#7. It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

Maria Sharapova

#8. I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

David Byrne

#9. The truth about change is that we tend to overestimate its speed while underestimating its reach.

Jeffrey J. Selingo

#10. When you're leading, you're generally trying to lead change, and I think it was Roy Amara, who said about technology, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." And I think the same applies to change within an organization.

Harry West

#11. What's your name, honey?" Frank asked her. "Beth Riley," she said. She could hear footsteps overhead as the agents stomped around her parents' bedroom upstairs. "What's your real name?" he asked. Her skin prickled. "Beth Riley," she said again.

Chelsea Cain

#12. In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark.

George Carlin

#13. My advice is, don't spend money on therapy.
Spend it in a record store.

Wim Wenders

#14. Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have
and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.

James Belasco And Ralph Stayer Flight Of The Buffalo 1994

#15. Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

Wayne W. Dyer

#16. A choice tells the world what is most important to a human being. When a man has a choice to make he chooses what is most important to him, and that choice tells the world what kind of a man he is.

Chaim Potok

#17. 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

#18. It had been fun to ride the fairy tale of Baz Acker actually giving a shit about him, but he knew firsthand fairy tales were a lot more Grimm brothers and much less Walt Disney.

Heidi Cullinan