Quotes About Underestimating Someone

#1. 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

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

Steven Sinofsky

#3. 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

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

Jeffrey J. Selingo

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

Jane Pauley

#6. 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

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

Paulo Coelho

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

Laozi

#9. 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

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

Dan Savage

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

Laozi

#12. 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

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

James Ellroy

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Neal Stephenson

#17. 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

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

T. S. Eliot

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Janet Evanovich

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

Zhuge Liang

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Carol S. Dweck

#26. 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

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

Girdhar Joshi

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

Augusten Burroughs

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

Charles Darwin

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

Markus Zusak