Quotes About Underestimation

The general undervaluation of the human soul is so great that neither the great religions nor the philosophies nor scientific rationalism have been willing to look at it twice.

The fault of the courage culture, therefore, is not its underlying message that courage is good, but its severe underestimation of the complexity involved in deploying this boldness in a useful way.

The woman had the IQ of a squash.

Adam's eyes narrowed. "I've looked you up. You're small potatoes, Snowflake.

A lot of people don't think I can play. It doesn't really bother me, truthfully. If anything, it just motivates me. It makes me work harder, makes me kind of have a chip on my shoulder.

People treat you differently when they think you are too young to know what you want.

Peeta rolls his eyes at Haymitch. "She has no idea. The effect she can have.

We respect that children are smart, sophisticated and can handle things that adults typically don't think they can.

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it. This

Baby, I said, I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.

they just didn't take Stephanie Coburn very seriously.

Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

La Prima Legge Fondamentale della stupidità umana asserisce senza ambiguità di sorta che: Sempre ed inevitabilmente ognuno di noi sottovaluta il numero di individui stupidi in circolazione.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.'fn1

A Primeira Lei Fundamental da Estupidez Humana afirma, sem ambiguidade, que «inevitavelmente, toda a gente subestima sempre o número de indivíduos estúpidos em circulação.»

there's a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students' potential to develop.

Many of the most accomplished people of our era were considered by experts to have no future. Jackson Pollock, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, and Charles Darwin were all thought to have little potential for their chosen fields. And in some of these cases, it may well have been true that they did not stand out from the crowd early on.

Never assume that loud is strong and quiet is weak?

When we met Susan Boyle she was a very unassuming lady. We didn't expect anything and we were probably a little dismissive of her.

I'm ready for Anthony Joshua. Hopefully he's overlooking me, thinking I'll be a piece of cake. It's a whole different ballgame when they're in the ring with me. Once they see the speed and accuracy I have, I know I will shock him a lot.

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

overestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it.