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The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. -- Stanley Smith Stevens
Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent. -- Anatoly Karpov
There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event. -- Irwin Redlener
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. -- Russell Lynes
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. -- Josh Billings
The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation. -- James Stockdale
I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation. -- Jean Dujardin
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God. -- Tim LaHaye
New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time. -- Bill Dedman
Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. -- Fred Allen
It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party. -- Franklin Knight Lane
Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up. -- Glen Hansard
In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first. -- Kay Granger
The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample. -- John James Audubon
What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane. -- Jean Dujardin
I will be the 43-year-old guy in the jumpsuit. In my estimation and my image of myself is that I am 23 and can get away with it. If I didn't have the show, I would be in one right now. It would be denim, but I love a terry. -- Andy Cohen
In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative. -- John Howard
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it. -- Keegan-Michael Key
Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature. -- Bil Keane
With me, baseball will never grow old. In my own estimation, it may not have improved so much as many believe, but regardless of everything, it is the same good old game. If I have contributed to its success, I do not refer to this in the sense of boasting. I had to or fall out of the ranks. -- Charles Comiskey
When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion. -- Corey Feldman
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love. -- Baruch Spinoza
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined. -- Honore de Balzac
We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin. -- Judah Smith
We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind -- David Coleman
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation. -- Woodrow Wilson
A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation. -- Stephen King
There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House. -- Van Jones
Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly. -- Herman Melville
Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. -- Isaac Barrow
... the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, -- Herman Melville
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. -- Susan B. Anthony
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. -- Frank Herbert
Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa. -- Jack Kirby
In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness. -- Savielly Tartakower
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others -- Michael Pollan
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us. -- Ben Jonson
To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of. -- George Washington
The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation -- James Stockdale
Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations. -- Thomas Berry
Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them. -- Abigail Adams
It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another. -- Malcolm Reynolds -- Joss Whedon
Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival. -- Arthur Desmond
A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world. -- Thomas Jefferson
This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way". -- John Lewis
There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation. -- Joseph Alleine
There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love. -- John Calvin
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others. -- Rudolf Virchow
The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity. -- George Washington
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God -- Tim LaHaye
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price. -- Enoch Powell
The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game. -- L. Ron Hubbard
People keep saying, How'd you get power? Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it. -- David Miscavige
In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. -- Daniel Ellsberg
Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen." -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation? -- Karen Essex
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion. -- John Stuart Mill
I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about. -- John Wyndham
It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true. -- Pericles
The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation. -- William Benton Clulow
Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous. -- Frederick Lenz
Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous. -- Frederick Lenz
The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them. -- Steve McConnell
The [chief] characteristic of Hitler's leadership [was] his over-estimation of the power of the will. [To win the war] this will had only to be translated into faith down to the youngest private soldier. -- Erich von Manstein
And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God. -- Adolf Hitler

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