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  • We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

  • You cannot overestimate the role of intuition in fiction writing. Or the role of accident or randomness. These things are very central. This is never really admitted. You have to cover the pages. You have to have those people do things. And the things they do have to be relevant to the entire concern. The specific things they do don't much matter, you just have to have them do something that counts.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

  • I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.

    School   Law   Class  
  • There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

    Art   Writing   Men  
    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.648, GENERAL PRESS
  • It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

    Men   Easy   Unhappiness  
    George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.85, Рипол Классик
  • Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

  • If [Ho Chi Minh] had had carte blanche over his movement, would the results of the war have been different? That is difficult to say. In some cases - as in 1945 and 1946, he appeared to overestimate the possibility that the United States might decide to recognize his government and the independence of the DRV (although to be fair, from the outset he had warned that Washington might eventually decide to align with the French because of the Cold War).

    Source: www.sonshi.com
  • You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

  • People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.

  • If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

    Demand   Accomplish   Ifs  
  • Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

  • Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.

  • It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day. Perhaps it would be within bounds to say that without railroads to bind the States into one homogeneous whole, the Nation never could have attained its present size and importance.

    Charles Frederick Carter (1909). “When railroads were new”
  • People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

    People   Miracle   Series  
    David Brooks (2011). “The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens”, p.21, Short Books
  • My one concern is that Hu Jintao may overestimate how much power China has in Pyongyang. They have - they do have influence, and they do have companies, and they do have economic relationships that could make life much more difficult in the north. Their balancing act is, "How much worse can we make it in the north without creating that which scares us more than anything, which is a collapse in the north." And then what happens to all those nuclear weapons. So they're going to work very hard to avoid that.

    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

    Hate   Stupid   Hatred  
    Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr
  • Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's

  • Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.

    Lazy   Looks   Use  
    Source: fpmt.org
  • We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

  • Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

    Sweet   Love Is   Romance  
  • People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.

  • To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

  • "God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

    God   Jesus   Giving  
    "Finding Water". Book by Julia Cameron, 2006.
  • Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

  • No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

    Years   People   Records  
    Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.
  • There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

  • It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.

  • It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

    Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.181, New Directions Publishing
  • 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
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