Quotes About Estimation

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

He no longer had an accurate visual memory of the size of the moon in the sky, and so he could not estimate how many times larger the cloud was.

from a hundred to a hundred and fifty kilometers, depending on how fat you were and whether

Between 1 and 10 quadrillion ants live on (and in) Earth

specified confidence intervals (for example, the statement that 40 per cent of the balls in the jar are white, at a confidence interval of 95 per cent, implies that the precise value lies somewhere between 35 and 45 per cent - 40 plus or minus 5 per cent).

It is as much of a mistake to underestimate yourself as to overestimate yourself

upon the civilization of the world. The best one can do is to estimate, as intelligently as possible, the national characteristics of the peoples engaged

At every step we take to gain the approbation of the wise, we lose something in the estimation of the vulgar.

I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don't use a ruler. As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.

through the air, reaching the culprit first; and nothing remained to Buck but to recover the bone. That was fair of Francois, he decided, and the half-breed began his rise in Buck's estimation. The other dog made no advances, nor received any; also, he did not attempt to steal from the newcomers. He was a gloomy

We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.

I never underestimate or overestimate anybody. Really we have to try and find levels of performance for ourselves first.

They say to never underestimate anyone, but they don't tell you to overestimate people either, so I'm just going to do me.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Doug Collins - people just underestimate him.

It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.

I never underestimated or overestimated myself. You should know where you stand. Moreover, you should have confi'dence in yourself because if you don't, what is the point of struggling? You don't know where you are headed!

I really underestimated how many people are paying attention to 'Jeopardy' and what's out there.

I'm not underestimating him but I'm confident in my ability. I know I can beat somebody like Timothy Bradley, who is a great fighter.

An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.