Quotes About Underestimation

It always surprises me how successful in life angry, small-minded people can be. I must underestimate these virtues.

People aren't that clever mostly, are they

The iPhone was broadly dismissed. The iPod was broadly dismissed. The iPad was probably more copiously written off as a large iPod.

Indeed, some of the Icelandic officials were convinced that Spassky was the better player and that he was going to defeat Fischer rather easily anyway. At the commencement of the match, they were privately expecting to see Fischer humiliated on the board.

The wise do nothing," the Beaver complained. "The wise sit and advise. Their understanding prevents action. Do not underestimate the young.

People who underestimated you were easier to manipulate.

Afterward, Ann did ask what was so great about this guy she loved. Tress did her best to explain, though she was certain world-traveled people like them would find her love plain and unremarkable. She underestimated the power of simple words spoken with passion. No one questioned her after that.

Our culture is quick to dismiss quiet, ordinary, hardworking men and women. In many instances, we equate ordinary with boring or, even more dangerous, ordinary has become synonymous with meaningless.

Devia ter sido um palhaço. Isso ter-me-ia proporcionado o mais vasto campo de expressão. Mas subestimava a profissão. Se me tivesse tornado palhaço, ou até actor de vaudeville, teria sido famoso. As pessoas não me teriam compreendido, mas teriam compreendido que eu não era para ser compreendido. Isso pelo menos teria sido um alívio.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

I didn't know you had to do so much to be a director. I thought, 'I can do it. I can write a treatment.' I didn't know about shot lists.

Do I think people are sleeping on me? Absolutely.

Children are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

I think Americans are a lot smarter than many give them credit for.

Scholastically, I did enough to get by, but I was smarter than I let on.

And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and, not least, his ridiculous accent that grew thicker or thinner depending on who he was talking to, did not look like a threat. He looked funny, a joke, a music-hall vampire. It had never previously occurred to Vimes that, just possibly, the joke was on other people.

I didn't stick with my game plan, I didn't take Rogers serious and the result, he knocked me out in less than 20 seconds.

Every time I'd get a job, they'd say: 'You'll be good at loading trucks.' I couldn't explain that there was more to me than carrying things.

You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is.

The Deacon moved like a man so sure of himself he'd walk into the pits of Hell and have the balls to tell the Devil to turn down the heat. The thing about men like that, men so blinkered by their own holy importance, was that more often than not they underestimated their enemies.

My mother, wore the mask, she thought as she napped the neck of the lead enforcer. And now I wear it. But it is not all that I am. Her friends -- her family -- were disarming the enforcers, or killing them before they could react. Some carried simple fishing knives loaned by the locals, and others had grabbed their own weapons from the sand. They were improving, adapting, and surviving, the way Enfys's mother had taught them. They underestimate us, and that is why they lose

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.