Best Estimating Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.”

Wells Made Suffering Perfect Dog Words Of Wisdom Perfection Fellows Profound Saint Wit Mortals Manifest Concealed Latent Estimating Wit And Wisdom

Book:Stickeen

Source: Stickeen

“When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.”

Needs Might Too Much Approval Estimating

Author:Criss Jami

“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.”

Source: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

“Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.”

Audience Capable London Educated Composition Estimating

Author:Jane Austen

“Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.”

Has Beens States Philosophy Values Position Importance Remains Determined Priorities Primaries Substance Realms Superiority Emphasis Estimating

Author:Manly Hall

“people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.”

“In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.”

Reason Suffering Evil Danger Adversity Complaining Estimating

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.”

Knows Men Doe Know How Perfection Faults Great Men Incapable Estimating

Author:Voltaire

“In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put the right amount of effort. This tool can help those looking at Warehouse Management Systems get their arms around this key issue.”

Helping Effort Company Issues Arms Keys Amount Cost Areas Tools Management Critical Ownership Warehouse Vendors Estimating Management Systems

Author:Dan Gillmor

“What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.”

“Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to put it mildly ... severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.”

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

Men Firsts Looks Political Work Philosophical Method Stupidity Rulers Discernment Estimating

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

“...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.”

Important Shows Dark Genius Shadow Mirrors Visible Traits Deceived Lumps Looking In The Mirror Estimating

Author:James Hillman

“No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.”

Ifs Men Mind States Moments Pain Felt Imagination Danger Serious Safe Wounds State Of Mind Scar Adversaries Estimating

Book:The Problem of Pain

Source: The Problem of Pain

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

People Inspirational Humans Persons Self Success Strength Human Nature Self Esteem Self Help Acceptance Positive Inspirational Life Confidence Self Love Self Confidence Self Worth Esteem Uplifting Self Acceptance Love Yourself Be You Self Care Beautiful Life Personal Branding Loving Yourself Loving Life Have Confidence Overrated Worthiness Just Be Yourself Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem Accepting Yourself Respect Yourself Self Esteem And Confidence Achieving Success Help Yourself Self Confident Achieved Success Overestimate Boost Your Confidence Self Concept My Self Worth Boost Your Self Esteem Just Love Yourself Building Confidence Confidence And Love Inspiring Self Esteem Love My Self Self Loving Inspirational Self Esteem Love And Acceptance Self Worth And Love Great Self Esteem Value Yourself Inspirational Self Confidence Confidence In Others Building Self Confidence Love Acceptance Help Self Esteem Estimating Self Confidence Building Improve Self Esteem Is It Worth It Value Of Love

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.”

Country Able Science Progress Influence Computer Appreciate Appreciation Statistics Engines Incapable Estimating Future Progress

Author:Charles Babbage

“The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general.”

Art War Country Force Natural Danger Victory Tests Difficulty Distance Soldier Allies Art Of War Adversaries Formation Calculating Estimating

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.”

Men Firsts Values Quality Talent Integrity Pure Ethics Every Man Calculations Public Life Moral Ethics Estimating

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.”

Students Economics Agendas Graduates Economist Interpreting Lag Graduate Students Estimating

Author:Thomas J. Sargent

“Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in over-estimating this, and representing a partial statement of truth as the whole truth. Geology, like many human beings, suffered from convulsions in its infancy; now, in its later years, I apprehend an attack of pressure on the brain.”

Thinking Years Humans Important Whole Science Human Beings Brain Doubt Rocks Danger Pressure Statements Factors No Doubt Representing Infancy Geology Whole Truth Estimating

Author:Thomas George Bonney

“If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Ignorance Cost Expensive Estimating

Author:Howard Gardner

“Estimating is what you do when you don't know.”

Knows Management Planning Estimating

Author:Sherman Kent

“If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.”

Ifs Should Political Moral Christianity Principles Influence Effects Gains Welfare True Religion True Christianity Estimating

Author:William Wilberforce

“It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.”

Way Littles Country Law Used Arms England Police Regard Russia France Officers Artillery Revolver Baton Estimating

Author:Lord Dunsany

“No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character.”

Should Persons Character Humanity Common Virtue Weakness Errors Judged Defects Estimating Defects Of Character

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .”

Kind Art Enough Difficult Complicated Proof Drawing Experiments Conclusion Observation Probability Calculations Estimating Drawing Conclusions

Author:Antoine Lavoisier