Determining when not to overestimate and when not to underestimate is a crucial skill that is not easily acquired. But it's unspeakably important to be able to know when not to underestimate, for example, another person's affections towards you; but ...
Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.
Those who intend to destroy me, underestimate my ability to regenerate.
Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.
Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.
Never underestimate somebody's silence. Lot more is conveyed through it. A person who respects human emotions will understand this better.
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.
Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.
I think we have underestimated their Gods; they have made millions stupid, and we are even not able to get one out of that stupidity.
I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.
The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.
That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.
Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have---and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
