Overestimating Quotes

#1. Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

Fernando Pessoa

#2. Overestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it.

Neal Stephenson

#3. I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

Markus Zusak

#4. His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.

Harold Holzer

#5. No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players,

Will Wright

#6. More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

Orison Swett Marden

#7. I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#8. To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.

Eric Hoffer

#9. I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant ... I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.

Markus Zusak

#10. This one will be shrewd, I think, and shrewdness is a limitation on the mind. Shrewdness tells you what you must not do because it would not be shrewd.

John Steinbeck

#11. The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Jim Highsmith

#12. The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

Ehud Barak

#13. I'm nobody's motivational speaker, but if I've learned anything it's this: Always try to fuck someone you think won't fuck you. Just try. Chances are decent that you're overestimating their taste or intelligence.

Shawn Vestal

#14. The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

Lindsey Graham

#15. Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Oliver Sacks

#16. Obviously I cannot

Lauren Barnholdt

#17. Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Jim Morrison

#18. No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

P.T. Barnum

#19. Nobody ever went broke overestimating the vulgarity of the American people,

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.

Kate Chopin

#21. If you come to Georgia, you can open up a company in a day. You yourself can come tomorrow and establish a company in a day, and you're not halted by paperwork.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#22. Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

Robert Schumann

#23. Just because he had underestimated them to start with didn't mean he should turn about-face and begin overestimating them now.

Stephen King

#24. He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knife - pretty much every tool a modern demigod could want.

Rick Riordan