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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. -- H. L. Mencken
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. -- Eric Hoffer
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! -- Tony Robbins
I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people. -- Garry Kasparov
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare -- Mark Twain
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults -- Mario Puzo
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit. -- Smith Wigglesworth
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. -- Tim Ferriss
Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others. -- Wayne Dyer
People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten. -- Bill Gates
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. -- Bill Gates
there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues. -- Mario Puzo
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. -- T. Harv Eker
We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government. -- James A. Garfield
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. -- Julia Cameron
We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society. -- Albert Einstein
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking. -- John von Neumann
Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either. -- Nancy Pelosi
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
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models. -- Freeman Dyson
In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well. -- Marc Benioff
The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers. -- Freeman Dyson
I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think. -- Helen Garner
It's hard to avoid 'unconscious overclaiming.' In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others. This makes sense, because we're far more aware of what we do than what other people do. Also, we tend to do the work that we value. -- Gretchen Rubin
Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do. -- Bill Maris
It's hard to overestimate how much the perception of the quality of the V.C. firm you're with matters - the signal it sends to other V.C.s, to potential employees, to customers, to the tech press. It's like where you went to college. -- Stewart Butterfield
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, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. -- Oscar Wilde
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility. -- Michael J. Fox
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything. -- John C. Maxwell
Don't overestimate your emotions and underestimate your intelligence. -- Amit Kalantri
You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge. -- Udo Di Fabio
...it's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama... -- David Nicholls
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had. -- Ellen Glasgow
High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with. -- H. L. Mencken
Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others. -- Wayne Dyer
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You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him. -- George S. Patton
Never overestimate the strength of the torchbearer's arm, for even the strongest arms grow weary. -- A.J. Darkholme
Some people seem to overestimate the amount of nonsense I am willing to accept from them. -- Steve Maraboli
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you. -- Amit Kalantri
If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia. -- Andrey Illarionov
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other. -- Clay Shirky
We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process. -- John C. Maxwell
Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong. -- Roy Bennett
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility -- George Santayana
People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles. -- David Brooks
People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions. -- Jack Welch
People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term. -- David House
You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate. -- Joseph Stiglitz
You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years. -- Bill Gates
People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years. -- Steve Pavlina
Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers. -- Ryan Lilly
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. -- Daniel Kahneman
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. -- Roy Amara
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period. -- Gretchen Rubin
We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade. -- Tony Robbins
I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well. -- Suzanne Collins
A leader would think that most people overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. -- Elena D. Calin
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. -- Tenzin Palmo
I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be. -- Pema Chodron
You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it. -- Sherry Thomas
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. -- Veronica Roth
You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business! -- Chris Corrigan
The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. Another common misunderstanding is to associate disruptive with good. -- Geoffrey Moore
To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating. -- Eric Hoffer

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