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Quotes About Estimate

I want to ask him how much he expects to take.
~ Achy Obejas
Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Furthermore, System 2 has no control over the effect and no knowledge of it. The participants who have been exposed to random or absurd anchors (such as Gandhi's death at age 144) confidently deny that this obviously useless information could have influenced their estimate, and they are wrong.
~ Daniel Kahneman
An adjuster is assigned to the claim—just as the underwriter was assigned, because she happens to be available. The adjuster gathers the facts of the case and provides an estimate of its ultimate cost to the company. The same adjuster then takes charge of negotiating with the claimant's representative to ensure that the claimant receives the benefits promised in the policy while also protecting the company from making excessive payments.
~ Daniel Kahneman
My dear Bobby, did I understand you to say that someone had offered you a thousand a year? A thousand?" "Holed it in one, Dad," said Bobby. "It's impossible," said the Vicar. Bobby was not hurt by this frank incredulity. His estimate of his own monetary value differed little from that of his father. "They must be complete mutts," he agreed heartily.
~ Agatha Christie
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
~ Noam Chomsky
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
~ George Santayana
Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.
~ Auguste Comte
If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.
~ Barack Obama
She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate.
~ Henny Youngman
Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.
~ Jeff Bingaman
The strategy is to bet your entire bankroll each race, apportioning it among the horses according to your informed estimate of each horse's chance of winning.
~ William Poundstone
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,And like enough thou know'st thy estimate.
~ William Shakespeare
Nevertheless, some analysts on the sell-side have justified Tesla's valuation. We recently observed a televised analyst say "when Tesla is earning $25 a share. …" That estimate, presumably at some point in the future, is used as an anchor for a target price as the stock shifts into a "concept holding." The
~ William W. Priest
WAGs... That's a technical term we engineers use. It means 'Wild-Assed Guess'.
~ David Weber
Only an estimate could be made of the wind's actual speed, though it was at least 65 knots.
~ Alfred Lansing
Now at last we could gauge the range of the American Dirty Mind—and estimate the unfathomable depth of loneliness in America.
~ Allan Sherman
Facilitate and document business analysis. Assist the project manager in defining project scope. Estimate needed time and resources. Define and design interfaces to external applications.
~ Derek C. Ashmore
that was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Fame is the one that does not stay It's occupant must die Or out of sight of estimate Ascend incessantly Or be that most insolvent thing A Lightning in the Germ Electrical the embryo But we demand the Flame
~ Emily Dickinson
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
~ Orville Wright