Underestimation Quotes

#1. Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no matter how inherently contradictory they may be and these inspirations were governed by extreme contempt and underestimation of the others.

Albert Speer

#2. I think inevitably over the course of my lifetime there's been an underestimation of the American people, and I believe they are really the ones that give me hope. There's so much of "they don't know this, and they don't know that," and they're always denigrating.

Lewis Black

#3. Underestimation of nonconventional units or a guerrilla enemy by regular forces is a cardinal military sin.

Howard R. Simpson

#4. Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.

Robert M. Pirsig

#5. Impatience is close to boredom but always results from one cause: an underestimation of the amount of time the job will take.

Robert M. Pirsig

#6. I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.

Reese Witherspoon

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

Parker J. Palmer

#8. Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

Fernando J. Corbato

#9. 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

#10. Underestimation has its uses.

Sherry Turkle

#11. We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

Philip K. Dick

#12. He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

Jane Austen

#13. A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.

Harold E. Varmus

#14. A tip for you-Little Miss Innocent routine only works when there's a credible belief that innocence is possible.

Sarah Mayberry

#15. I send him an email back informing him that since this is his nineteenth relative in grave danger, he needs to either consult a tantric to remove a curse on his family or to simply stop lying to take extra days off. I shut my computer and hurriedly get ready to reach the office.

Twinkle Khanna

#16. But that's the thing about Outs. They are so far on the periphery that people underestimate them. And people don't realize that they've underestimated them until it's too late.

Roseanne Cheng

#17. His eyes slink over me. "I forgot to tell you- you look lovely."
Lovely. I want to laugh at his words. "You shouldn't have bothered with the compliment," I say, "I'm many things, and the least impressive of them is lovely."
.... Lovely. What a load of bullshit.

Laura Thalassa

#18. Across the board at the office there was a belief, an unproved theorem, about Coinman's blind faith in Ratiram; that if one thought Coinman could willingly sip a cup of Botulinum if Ratiram wished so, it still underestimated the reverence that dwelt in Coinman's heart for Ratiram.

Pawan Mishra

#19. Being able to resolve conflicts peacefully is one of the greatest strengths we can give our children.

Fred Rogers

#20. I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.

Christopher Shays

#21. Those who intend to destroy me, underestimate my ability to regenerate.

Aleksandra Ninkovic