Quotes About Underestimating Me

#1. I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

Carol Moseley Braun

#2. All my life, people have been underestimating me.

Hugh Carey

#3. I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

Donna Shalala

#4. Just because I give you my all, doesn't mean I'm a pushover. Don't make the mistake of underestimating me. Push too hard and you'll see how strong I really am!

Karen Gibbs

#5. Don't make a career out of underestimating me." - Claire de Haven

James Ellroy

#6. There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

Laozi

#7. 1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

Newt Gingrich

#8. A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.

Simon Pegg

#10. I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

Jane Pauley

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

Jeffrey J. Selingo

#12. Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups.

Steven Sinofsky

#13. Don't ever make the mistake most New Yorkers do, of underestimating Chicago. They think it's only a postage stamp on a very large envelope, and they're the envelope.

Jeffrey Archer

#14. I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.

George W. Bush

#15. Don't make the mistake of underestimating your enemies.

Bohdi Sanders

#16. Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.

P.T. Barnum

#17. I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

Juan Cole

#18. The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.

Cindy Crawford

#19. I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

Theodore Roosevelt

#20. The most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

Georges Bernanos

#21. You'll have more than enough people underestimating you in your lifetime, Kyali Corwynall. You cannot afford to be one of them.

Amy Bai

#22. It's not like I want to be friends with you now, Frankie. Don't even talk to me, I seriously can't deal with you.
I'm just writing to say I underestimated you. I significantly underestimated you. I don't actually think it is possible to overestimate you. Although you are not a nice person.

E. Lockhart

#23. Once again, human history proved that the worst mistake possible in politics was underestimating one's opponents. Van

Greg Bear

#24. His father had told him time and again never to underestimate the power of something that could kill you.

C.J. Hill

#25. We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

Freya Stark

#26. But that is the danger of life sometimes, underestimating ourselves and our future.

Sarah Dalton

#27. Happens to me all the time ... People are always underestimating my dumbness.

Janet Evanovich

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

Neal Stephenson

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

Markus Zusak

#30. On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

Charles Darwin

#31. My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

Augusten Burroughs

#32. You cannot commit the folly of underestimating the power of a mother.

Girdhar Joshi

#33. Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#34. there's a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students' potential to develop.

Carol S. Dweck

#35. It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Lester B. Pearson

#36. Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

James Balog

#37. The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.

Zhuge Liang

#38. I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.

John Lloyd

#39. 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

#40. No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

H.L. Mencken

#41. Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

T. S. Eliot

#42. There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction.

Frans De Waal

#43. 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

#44. This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Mark Zuckerberg

#45. Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake
one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

Vince Flynn

#46. 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

#47. No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

Laozi

#48. No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.

Dan Savage