Top 105 Overestimate Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.
In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.
there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.
It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
I think people overestimate the risk of high-risk projects.
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.
Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other's power - and underestimate their own.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think.
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.
People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.
You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.
You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.
There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction.
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
I never underestimate or overestimate anybody. Really we have to try and find levels of performance for ourselves first.
We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.
We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.
People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.
The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.
We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
I'm never going to overestimate the clout of my job.
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.
It's hard to overestimate how much the perception of the quality of the V.C. firm you're with matters - the signal it sends to other V.C.s, to potential employees, to customers, to the tech press. It's like where you went to college.
You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!
High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.
When we overestimate the benefits of exercise, underestimate how many calories we eat, and overcompensate for a job well done, exercise is really a false protection from fattening food.
We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
They say to never underestimate anyone, but they don't tell you to overestimate people either, so I'm just going to do me.
I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge.
If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.
