Quotes About Underestimation

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

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.

When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them.

Parents also seriously underestimate the extent of depression in their adolescent children.

It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were.

Never undervalue the enemies, especially if they are stupid.

They probably think because I am so small and young, nothing of greatness and class can come out of me; but they shall soon find out.

No siempre los imbéciles salimos tan imbéciles como el imbécil que nos menosprecia.

The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time.

To be depreciated and humiliated isn't a statement of your worth but rather an evidence of your disregarded potential.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

Sometimes, when we play against weaker teams, everyone says, 'Oh, you won because you played weaker teams.'

Some people write me off as a bit of a hick from an Essex council estate. I realize that. But I can read.

I've always felt that people put me down, and I'd fight back. I played football 15 years, and nobody gave me any credit, and they never will do.

If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.'

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.

Never in her wildest dreams would she have pegged this man as a dirty talker. Just went to show that you should never underestimate the quiet ones - and never let your guard down around them either.

Those men think I'm purely decorative, and they're fools for not knowing better.

Serpine underestimates you. Everyone underestimates you. You're stronger than they know. You're stronger than you know - Skulduggery