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  • In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put the right amount of effort. This tool can help those looking at Warehouse Management Systems get their arms around this key issue.

    Issues   Keys   Effort  
  • No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character.

  • people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

    Respect   Honesty   Men  
  • What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

    "Book by Denis Diderot". Book by Denis Diderot, 1749.
  • Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

  • In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

  • The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .

  • When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

  • We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

    Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK
  • Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to put it mildly ... severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.

    Powerful   Issues   Worry  
  • Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

    "Estimates and Influence," Foreign Service Journal (April 1969).
  • Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

    1814 Mansfield Park, ch.34.
  • If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  • If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 3, 2009.
  • Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

    Men   Perfection   Doe  
  • No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

    Pain   Men   Imagination  
    C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.12, Harper Collins
  • [On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

    Pain   Feelings   Shadow  
  • If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

  • The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

    "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, Ch. 22, 1513.
  • Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in over-estimating this, and representing a partial statement of truth as the whole truth. Geology, like many human beings, suffered from convulsions in its infancy; now, in its later years, I apprehend an attack of pressure on the brain.

  • There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.

    Dog   Perfect   Profound  
    John Muir (1990). “Stickeen”, p.15, Heyday
  • Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.

    "The Secret Teachings of All Ages". Book by Manly P. Hall, 1928.
  • It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.

    Country   Russia   Law  
  • ...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.

    Dark   Mirrors   Shadow  
  • The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general.

    Country   Art   War  
    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.23, Lulu.com
  • You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

    "Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer". Book by Anthony Hyman, 1982.
  • I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

    Integrity   Men   Quality  
    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.132, Rowman & Littlefield
  • I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

  • When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

    Approval   Needs   Might  
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