Underestimating Quotes

We hold ourselves back not just out of fear of seeming too aggressive but also by underestimating our abilities. Ask a woman to explain why she's successful and she'll credit luck, hard work, and help from others. Ask a man the same question and he's likely to explain, or at least think, "C'mon, I'm awesome!"4 ~ Sheryl Sandberg

Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success? ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Those we underestimate in life can often serve as guides to our lack of vision. ~ Stewart Stafford

I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds. ~ J. Robbins

I've had too many years of people underestimating me. Thinking I'm weak. Walking all over me. Abusing me. I am NOT WEAK. I have POWER. Mental and physical POWER, and I've unlocked it. ~ Robert Bryndza

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

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. ~ John Lloyd

But that is the danger of life sometimes, underestimating ourselves and our future. ~ Sarah Dalton

I pity anyone who makes the mistake of underestimating you, Dr. Gibson."
"My lady, the sentiment is returned in full. ~ Lisa Kleypas

The power of an idea is never to be underestimated. Many a thought has survived long after its host has ceased to be. It is the power of an idea that no shield can defend against, nor sword divide, nor poison infect. As such, we must aspire to create ideas, rather than preserve life. In a sense, this is how we achieve true immortality and live on past our time. ~ A.J. Darkholme

Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups. ~ Steven Sinofsky

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times. ~ Augusten Burroughs

People underestimating me is my secret weapon ~ James Patterson

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." - Claire de Haven ~ James Ellroy

You cannot commit the folly of underestimating the power of a mother. ~ Girdhar Joshi

Just because I give you my all, doesn't mean I'm a pushover. Don't make the mistake of underestimating me. Push too hard and you'll see how strong I really am! ~ Karen Gibbs

The truth about change is that we tend to overestimate its speed while underestimating its reach. ~ Jeffrey J. Selingo

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have researched 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. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. ~ H.L. Mencken

No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure. ~ Laozi

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake
one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith) ~ Vince Flynn

There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction. ~ Frans De Waal

You don't have to love me, Ramsey. But just so you know, I do love you. I always have and I always will. But right now, I really just want my best friend back." She tapped my pec. "He's in there. I know he is. And you are seriously underestimating me if you think your petty lies are going to stop me. ~ Aly Martinez

Any lack of balance in this respect, either too far below or too far above the mark, has an irritating effect upon the surroundings. To know if one has an inflation, a person has only to see if he or she gets on other people's nerves. If so, one is probably a bit overestimating one-self, or underestimating oneself for with an inflation a person may have feelings of either superiority or inferiority. Feelings of inferiority are just a veiled inflation. If one feels inferior, that's really ambition; a person wants to be more than one is. One wants to be a great person and knows one isn't. Inferiority is also inflation and, therefore, gets on people's nerves.
Sometimes people come in and say, "Oh well, you know, I can't do it. How do you think I can do this? You know, I'm not capable, I'm so stupid, I can't think," and so on. Then I say, "Now stop that nonsense. Get on with your job." They are really making a conceited dance out of calling themselves inferior and incapable. (p. 73) ~ Marie-Louise Von Franz

All my life, people have been underestimating me. ~ Hugh Carey

The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily. ~ Cindy Crawford

1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton. ~ Newt Gingrich

Okay." He popped everything into the fridge. "Now I just need to grab some things from upstairs."
"For the pie?"
"For you. Give me like...five minutes. And--" he flashed his toothiest grin "--take you clothes off."
I froze. "When you said you wanted lemon meringue pie and filthy sex, I didn't think you meant together."
"That's what you get for underestimating me. ~ Alexis Hall

I don't think there are enough words in the world that exist to express exactly just how much I love my son! He's right there in the front of my soul, he can turn me into an eagle, a lioness, a tigress, a swan! A goof or a queen! There's no underestimating just how much I love him; I surround him like the ocean surrounds the ships! I never wanted to change the world, until he came along and showed me that he deserves a better world to live in! ~ C. JoyBell C.

The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully. ~ Zhuge Liang

The most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre. ~ Georges Bernanos

Maybe love was no match for ice ... but Piper had used it to wake a metal dragon. Mortals did superhuman feats in the name of love all the time. Mothers lifted cars to save their children. And Piper was more than just a mortal. She was a demigod. A hero.
The ice melted on her blade. Her arm steamed under Khione's grip.
'Still underestimating me,' Piper told the goddess. 'You really need to work on that. ~ Rick Riordan

The secret of creativity is then to place yourself in situations where you've got to be creative, but this is done only when one doesn't know in advance that one will have to be creative. This, in turn, is so because we underestimate our creative resources; quite properly, we cannot believe in our creativity until we experience it; and since we thus necessarily underestimate our creative resources we do not consciously engage upon tasks which we know require such resources; hence the only way in which we can bring our creative resources into play is by similarly underestimating the difficulty of a task. ~ Albert O. Hirschman

Ours is a bourgeois civilization. I am not using this term in its Marxian sense. Chicken! In the vocabularies of modern art and religion it is bourgeois to consider that the universe was made for our safe use and to give us comfort, ease, and support. Light travels at a quarter of a million miles per second so that we can see to comb our hair or read in the paper that ham hocks are cheaper than yesterday. De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse. ~ Saul Bellow

I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating. ~ George W. Bush

We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks are being taken in drama television in the U.K., and I think a lot of programme makers are underestimating the intelligence of the viewing public, basing it all on ratings. ~ Charles Dance

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought. ~ Juan Cole

I believe you!' the artiste exclaimed finally and extinguishes his gaze. 'I do! These eyes are not lying! How many times have I told you that your basic error consists in underestimating the significance of the human eye. Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes - never! A sudden question is put to you, you don't even flinch, in one second you get hold of yourself and know what you must say to conceal the truth, and you speak quite convincingly, and not a wrinkle on your face moves, but - alas - the truth which the question stirs up from the bottom of your soul leaps momentarily into your eyes, and it's all over! They see it, and you're caught! ~ Mikhail Bulgakov

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me. ~ Donna Shalala

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it. ~ James Balog

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant. ~ Markus Zusak

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations. ~ Jane Pauley

A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if,
without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive accretions from
oppressor and other cultures, they return to the upward paths of their own culture, which is
nourished by the living reality of its environment, and which negates both harmful influences
and any kind of subjection to foreign culture. Thus, it may be seen that if imperialist
domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression, national liberation is necessarily
an act of culture ~ Amilcar Cabral

Never underestimate a person who is kind and sweet. They may have friends in high places or some other superpower. I have written a large company about some improvements and glitches they have which affected my and other authors'/partners' sales. They did very little. Now they are being looked at by people in high places. - Strong by Kailin Gow about the Strength of Being an Influencer ~ Kailin Gow

[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve. ~ Boris Johnson

Validate you,
and the world will
start validating you.
Underestimate you,
and the world will
start underestimating you. ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it. ~ T. S. Eliot

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging. ~ Charles Darwin

People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself. ~ Douglas Adams

Overestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it. ~ Neal Stephenson

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent. ~ Paulo Coelho

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value. ~ Orison Swett Marden

I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant ... I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS. ~ Markus Zusak

Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public. ~ P.T. Barnum

you know what is stupidity? underestimating self ~ Litymunshi

We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die. ~ Freya Stark