Quotes About Estimating

#1. The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.

Frederick Banting

#2. [On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

Harriet Martineau

#3. The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#4. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

Criss Jami

#5. The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be ...

Antoine Lavoisier

#6. She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.

Thornton Wilder

#7. In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

Norm MacDonald

#8. In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put the right amount of effort. This tool can help those looking at Warehouse Management Systems get their arms around this key issue.

Dan Gillmor

#9. You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

Charles Babbage

#10. In 21 projects studied that same year, estimates were prepared by a third party, typically a systems analyst. The developers in these cases substantially outperformed the projects in which estimating was done by a programmer and/or a supervisor

Tom DeMarco

#11. Usually, when people get an idea, they are eager to start acting immediately, immerse themselves in the process without creating a system of actions, without being knowledgeable of the matter, without analyzing and estimating everything beforehand

Sunday Adelaja

#12. The problem of estimating the mineral and activator contents, in other words the body-building and repairing qualities of the displacing foods used by the various primitive races, is similar in many

Anonymous

#13. It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.

Lord Dunsany

#14. The most obvious problem with estimating a dummy dependent variable model using OLS is that the predicted probabilities aren't guaranteed

Roberto Pedace

#15. 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

#16. If ... a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should ... gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

William Wilberforce

#17. If you think your odds of solving your problem are bad, don't rule out the possibility that what is really happening is that you are bad at estimating odds.

Scott Adams

#18. Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

Voltaire

#19. Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

Jane Austen

#20. In fact, studies show that people are terrible at estimating their abilities.

Carol S. Dweck

#21. There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.

John Muir

#22. No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person's character.

Swami Vivekananda

#23. Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

Sherman Kent

#24. When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

Thomas J. Sargent

#25. No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

C.S. Lewis

#26. I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

Thomas Jefferson

#27. And there's a special place in shiva hell reserved for men in sandals, their cracked, hardened toenails, dark with fungus, proudly on display.

Jonathan Tropper

#28. You have to stick to your guns for what your vision is.

Reagan Gomez-Preston

#29. The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

Henry Miller

#30. Love is sentimental measles.

Charles Kingsley

#31. The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

Bill Viola

#32. Don't be afraid to close your eyes and dream, but then open your eyes and see

Puff Daddy

#33. The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

N. T. Wright

#35. Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

Thomas Piketty

#36. This is no library. This is the Batcave.

Robin Sloan

#37. And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

Robert Hamer

#38. I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said ...

Nellie L. McClung