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The test of civilization is its estimate of women. -- George William Curtis
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. -- Charles Spurgeon
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? -- Tillie Olsen
I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices. -- Rachael Ray
It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution. -- Bill Gurley
In an efficient market, at any point in time, the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value. -- Eugene Fama
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity. -- Jennifer Armintrout
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness. -- Daniel Kahneman
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. -- Robert Jackson
Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising. -- Leo Burnett
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region. -- Antony Hewish
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. -- Henry David Thoreau
We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. -- John Bolton
It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word. -- Jamie Oliver
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. -- Stephen Hawking
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
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. -- Orison Swett Marden
Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years. -- Didier Sornette
Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy. -- Theresa May
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life. -- A. J. Liebling
I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes. -- Gail Collins
I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense. -- Leon Battista Alberti
There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. -- Nikola Tesla
The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. -- Jose Rizal
There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China. -- James Chanos
In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious plan of man's salvation was brought about through the infinite love of God the Father. In this divine plan is seen the most marvelous manifestation of the love of God to the fallen race. -- Ellen G. White
Humility is the proper estimate of oneself. -- Charles Spurgeon
Never under estimate a pretty little liar. -- Sara Shepard
The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration -- Helmut Schmid
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. -- George William Curtis
People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that. -- Andrew Davies
Most people over estimate others talents and underestimate their own. -- Orrin Woodward
Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security -- Bruce Schneier
We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience -- Honore de Balzac
Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate. -- Ilka Chase
The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who can estimate the wealth of worth caged in a little child? -- Evangeline Booth
The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them. -- Richard Bentall
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.] -- Ovid
Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative. -- William Nordhaus
We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind -- David Coleman
Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. -- Kurt Hahn
Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living. -- Doris Janzen Longacre
Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate. -- Phyllis Diller
None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct. -- Luigi Pirandello
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. -- Samuel Johnson
No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works. -- Mary Somerville
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. -- Friedrich Schiller
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth. -- Mark Twain
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate. -- Henny Youngman
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low. -- Jonathan Gruber
We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term. -- Arthur C. Clarke
For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium. -- Walter J. Phillips
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When we acquire businesses in the developing world, we estimate if the growth opportunities are strong. -- Adi Godrej
It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them. -- Havilah Babcock
The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. -- Cecil B. DeMille
The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future. -- Frank William Taussig
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man. -- Honore de Balzac
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. -- Marcel Proust
I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. -- Markus Zusak
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. -- Augustus William Hare
You might be a redneck if you need an estimate from your barber before you get a haircut. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. -- Samuel Johnson
In terms of relationships, women often completely over-estimate the confidence of men, and forget about needing to feel validated. -- Matthew Hussey
Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity. -- Sara Sheridan
The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero. -- Philip Morrison
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. -- Karl Marx
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees. -- Sam Altman
When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate. -- Phyllis Diller
A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year...and under-estimate what he can do in five. -- Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future. -- Benjamin Graham
Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced. -- Margaret Truman Daniel
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us. -- Seneca the Elder
As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value. -- Samuel Johnson
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers. -- Ryan Lilly
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. -- Tryon Edwards
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
I estimate that 75% of those organizations using Scrum will not succeed in getting the benefits that they hope for from it. -- Ken Schwaber
Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds. -- John Leo
My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US). -- John Gofman
...the contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be...between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%. -- Claude Lorius
No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest. -- Joyce Cary
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are. -- John Calvin
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. -- Walter Lippmann
I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off. -- Jim Watt
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature. -- Carl von Clausewitz
No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius. -- Samuel Johnson
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. -- Charles Dudley Warner
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. -- Mark Twain
We estimate that by 2010 China will have added another 250 million subscribers, strengthening its position as the single largest mobile market in the world, -- Jorma Ollila
Never under-estimate your effort, no matter how little. Every effort, little or great is a step closer towards the actualisation of your dreams. -- Chinonye J. Chidolue
Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox. -- Steven Levitan
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. -- George W. Bush
Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer. -- William Shakespeare
Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost. -- Dave Barry
In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value. -- Eugene Fama
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion? -- Bertrand Russell
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought. -- Charles Spurgeon
There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself. -- Nathaniel Branden
We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need. -- Jan Egeland
Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers. -- David Kay
If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken. -- Johann Lamont
How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate. -- Peter F. Hamilton
Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards. -- Denis Waitley
Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity. -- Grover Cleveland

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