Top 100 Quotes About Estimation
#1. People keep saying, How'd you get power? Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.
David Miscavige
#2. And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully.
Jane Austen
#3. The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.
Tim Field
#4. In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.
Frank Herbert
#5. He did not enjoy speaking about women with other men, a practice which, in his estimation, was always clownish and braying.
Eleanor Catton
#6. But the habit patterns, inevitably, had survived. To the air, with a wry grin, he murmured, "How long, O Lord? How long?" In his private estimation: not long now.
John Brunner
#7. Emotions. A waste of energy in Zacharel's estimation. You lived, you warred and one day you died. Anything else was unnecessary.
Gena Showalter
#8. In replacing religion as the final source of knowledge in popular estimation, science begins to look a bit like another religion itself.
Dalai Lama XIV
#9. The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them.
Steve McConnell
#10. All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
Woodrow Wilson
#11. Great learning and superior abilities ... will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
Abigail Adams
#12. In proportion as I discover the worthlessness of other pursuits, the value of my Eliza and of domestic happiness rises in my estimation.
Alexander Hamilton
#14. We are now becoming, by Blackmore's estimation, teme machines - servants to the evolution of our own technologies.
Michael Harris
#15. No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. The [chief] characteristic of Hitler's leadership [was] his over-estimation of the power of the will. [To win the war] this will had only to be translated into faith down to the youngest private soldier.
Erich Von Manstein
#17. The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.
L. Ron Hubbard
#18. Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.
Honore De Balzac
#19. If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.
Rudolf Virchow
#20. You are the one who knows yourself - which is to say, you know how much you are worth in your own estimation, and therefore at what price you will sell yourself; because people sell themselves at different rates.
Epictetus
#21. One very gratifying compliment I sometimes hear is that women want to be my best friend. This endlessly amuses my actual best friend, Jocelyn, because in her estimation I'm 'a good friend, but not that great.
Mindy Kaling
#22. It is the laugh of a man in the grip of fond recall- the sight of a sunset, the firm feel of a woman's breast through a thin silk shirt (not that Barry has, in Henry's estimation, ever felt such a thing), or the packed warmth of beach sand.
Stephen King
#23. In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.
Kay Granger
#24. A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
Stephen King
#25. The only reason someone would be calling this early the morning after the Grammys is to tell me I did something wrong."
The phone goes silent.
"Well, I'm going to have to disagree with that," I tell him. "In my estimation, you definitely did everything right last night.
Katie Delahanty
#26. I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.
Jane Austen
#27. People tend to take other people at their own estimation: declare yourself a genius and acolytes will follow; call yourself a hero and soldiers will assemble; make anxiety a theme and people will assume you're anxious.
Anonymous
#28. The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.
John Calvin
#29. The goal of the Christian life is the pursuit of an intimate knowledge of God that leads to a greater estimation of His worth, a greater satisfaction and joy in His person, and a greater giving of oneself for His glory. As
Paul David Washer
#30. THE BEST WAY TO FOOL SOMEONE, in Vin's estimation, was to give them what they wanted. Or, at the very least, what they expected. As long as they assumed that they were one step ahead, they wouldn't look back to see if there were any steps that they'd completely missed.
Brandon Sanderson
#31. Evolving increases our value, and when we know our value, we navigate toward those with whom we share a genuine interest and appreciation. The rest, in my estimation, is bondage.
Kyrian Lyndon
#32. And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking
how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe
Pasquale Tursi said, only, Yes.
Jess Walter
#33. I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.
Walter Scott
#34. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
Susan B. Anthony
#35. What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing ... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.
Jean Dujardin
#36. [ ... ] and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.
Herman Melville
#37. But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers.
Mary Balogh
#38. I will be the 43-year-old guy in the jumpsuit. In my estimation and my image of myself is that I am 23 and can get away with it. If I didn't have the show, I would be in one right now. It would be denim, but I love a terry.
Andy Cohen
#39. By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. Aye,
Herman Melville
#40. many teams that say they have an estimation problem actually have a negotiation problem. A manager asks for an estimate. The team says, "That will take four days." The manager makes a counteroffer, "Can you make it two?" This is no longer a discussion about estimates. It's a negotiation.
Elisabeth Hendrickson
#41. There is a correlation between one's estimation of the odds of finding a new lover who is, at the least, of the same standard as they one they're currently in a dead relationship with, and, their attempting to revive a dead relationship.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#42. Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
Fred Allen
#43. While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.
Elissa Schappell
#45. If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.
Giacomo Leopardi
#46. It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another.
Malcolm Reynolds
Melodie Ramone
#47. Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
Charles Caleb Colton
#48. In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.
Savielly Tartakower
#49. But shame, for Mannering, was an emotion that attended only failure; he could not be made to feel compunction if he had not, in his own estimation, failed.
Eleanor Catton
#50. Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.
Isaac Barrow
#51. It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.
Franklin Knight Lane
#52. No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline
Charles Spurgeon
#53. The banker didn't seem convinced - but then, in Wayne's estimation, he didn't seem completely human either. He was at least part dolphin.
Brandon Sanderson
#54. The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.
John Stuart Mill
#55. A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
#56. And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.
Adolf Hitler
#57. Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.
Herman Melville
#58. With me, baseball will never grow old. In my own estimation, it may not have improved so much as many believe, but regardless of everything, it is the same good old game. If I have contributed to its success, I do not refer to this in the sense of boasting. I had to or fall out of the ranks.
Charles Comiskey
#59. Thanksgiving - fall's finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.
Carew Papritz
#60. There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.
Joseph Alleine
#61. The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.
George Washington
#62. It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Josh Billings
#63. A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.
Keegan-Michael Key
#64. New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.
Tim LaHaye
#65. It would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.
Frances Wright
#66. He knew he was reeling down in Mary's estimation and he wanted her to love him and to admire him. At the same time there was a fine steel wire of truthfulness in him that cut off the heads of fast-traveling lies.
John Steinbeck
#67. The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.
William Benton Clulow
#68. Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.
Glen Hansard
#69. Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations.
Thomas Berry
#70. Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
Anatoly Karpov
#71. To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.
George Washington
#72. In my estimation it's silly to go out and spend your time aiding people if you don't have your own act together yet. So I'd rather you spend the time, get it right, and it'll all work out a lot better.
Frederick Lenz
#73. For I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation.
Jane Austen
#74. Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.
Jack Kirby
#75. What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson
that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul.
Elizabeth Taylor
#76. Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others
Michael Pollan
#77. By her estimation, the woman had probably been five years old during the height of the war. Listening to panicked voices in the next room. The majority of the living memories now owned by then-children.
Aimee Bender
#78. I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation
which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about.
John Wyndham
#79. Prophecy is nothing but only just an estimation based on regularities of the Nature.
Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
#80. Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous.
Frederick Lenz
#81. Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.
Arthur Desmond
#82. Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."
Frederick Lenz
#83. For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads", and the "Bhagavad Gita".
Jawaharlal Nehru
#84. The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.
James Stockdale
#85. We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation; but when we receive it, we are lowered.
Charles Caleb Colton
#86. Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.
Mark Batterson
#87. Early in the ministry of the apostle Paul, he called himself the least of the apostles. Later on he said he was the least of all Christians. Then he said he was the chief of sinners. The older he got, the more he saw of God, the lower he became in his own estimation.
Tommy Nelson
#88. Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.
Enoch Powell
#89. There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.
John Calvin
#90. There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
Jane Austen
#91. When everyone else saw the two of them, they saw Gavin who was nothing but trouble and Davy who was a wallflower, but in Gavin's estimation, if you looked inside you'd see that Gavin was just a scared little boy and Davy was his hero.
Kade Boehme
#92. In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.
Daniel Ellsberg
#93. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
Pericles
#94. So I decide to overshoot his estimation of my insanity and show him how little he really understands the psychology of Reds. Today I lead the Pax on a suicide mission into the heart of his fleet.
Pierce Brown
#95. It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
Ben Jonson
#96. The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#97. The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet--that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.
Oswald Chambers
#98. Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.
Baruch Spinoza
#99. The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.
John James Audubon
#100. There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
Irwin Redlener
