Quotes About Overestimation

#1. Great achievements would be few and far between without gross overestimation of the advantages and pleasures to be expected from them.

Dee Hock

#2. Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.

Alafair Burke

#3. Though surnamed the Wise, he was not immune from the occupational disease of rulers: overestimation of their capacity to control events. No

Barbara W. Tuchman

#4. We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.

Parker J. Palmer

#5. Most men overestimate themselves. It's the only way they can reproduce. It's why we're all here, us humans. Overestimation.

Victor Robert Lee

#6. I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.

Alexander Alekhine

#7. I think there's been an overestimation of how much the press can shape coverage and people's decisions.

David Folkenflik

#8. The world is nearing spiritual death, and America is second only to Europe in the digging of its grave - a grave dug by deception.

Gail Trebesch Opper

#9. The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes

Barack Obama

#10. Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!

Frederick Lenz

#11. I ask only one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now; but if even that is impossible, command me to disappear and I will do it.
-Vronsky

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Mischief twinkled in his eyes. 'Okay' isn't even close. Kissing you is like a roller-coaster ride to outer space. The farther we go, the more I'm lost and the more I want to explore new territory

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. May God grant you godly children.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Me and Janet really are two different people.

Michael Jackson

#15. Even if you are strange, you may not be able to deny that we all live in the same home that we call Earth. So let us love her.

Debasish Mridha

#16. I like my easy life at home. I like to live in Switzerland. I like to be with my wife, with my daughter, to take my daughter to school, to lead a normal life. I try everything possible to keep that.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#17. None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then.

Bert Dodson

#18. Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#19. The desert preserves. What other lands destroy, the desert keeps. It accepts dead things, holds them close, and draws away the rot that would destroy; given time, it mummifies or crystalizes.

Louis L'Amour

#20. You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky.

Elisabeth Hewer

#21. Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do and what you want to be, and don't be afraid to pay the price to get it.

Anonymous