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underestimate
«A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l»
Author: John Allen Paulos
| Keywords:
accord, attributing, characteristic, coincidence, coincidences, conclusive, Correspondences, drastically, frequency, prime, significance, sorts, tendency, too little, underestimate
«I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we're dealing with, and that we're not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we're making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.»
Author: Billy Wilder
| Keywords:
dealing, Harvard, Harvard Law, Harvard Law School, law school, middle class, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, restaurant, subway, underestimate
«Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.»
Author: Winnie the Pooh
| About:
Appreciation,
Cute,
Listening
| Keywords:
bothering, doing nothing, listening, underestimate
«I thought digital technology would eventually reverse urbanization, and so far that hasn't happened. But people always overestimate how much will change in the next three years, and they underestimate how much will change over the next 10 years.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
change over, overestimate, overestimated, reverse, underestimate, urbanization
«A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Appreciation,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
by design, common mistake, complete, completely, design, designing, foolproof, fools, ingenuity, mistake, underestimate, underestimated, underestimates, underestimating
«Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
becomes, climbs, climb on, coldness, ever, Get High, harder, Harder Than You, Hard on, hard up, higher, Higher And Higher, higher up, High C, high life, High Ones, increases, let, mediocre, privileges, responsibility, The Climb, U.S., underestimate, underestimated, underestimates, underestimating, us
«Friendly cynics and fierce enemies alike often underestimate or ignore the strong thread of moral purpose which runs through the fabric of American history»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
American history, Cynics, fabric, fierce, thread, underestimate