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«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.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Change
| Keywords:
inaction, lull, lulled, lulling, lulls, occur, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, two-year, underestimate
«I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we're dealing with, and that we're not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we're making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.»
Author: Billy Wilder
| Keywords:
dealing, Harvard, Harvard Law, Harvard Law School, law school, middle class, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, restaurant, subway, underestimate
«The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
centrality, conceptual, electrified, electrify, electrifying, hugely, Literary Art, literary criticism, modern history, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, scholarship, self love, sign language, sophistication, sorely, undervalue, undervalued, undervalues, undervaluing, visual, visual image
«Do not overestimate the decency of the human race»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
decencies, decency, human race, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates
«I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
curse, damage, ethical, greatly, modest, overcome, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, services, speaking
«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!»
Author: Anthony Robbins
| About:
Appreciation
| Keywords:
decade, mastered, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, underestimate
«The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Appreciation,
Money
| Keywords:
overestimate, overestimated, overestimates
«To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
All That, capacities, demanded, in demand, measure, measure up, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, up to
«One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Appreciation,
Beauty
| Keywords:
apt, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates
«I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Appreciation,
God
| Keywords:
ability, creating, god, His, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, sometimes, somewhat, think
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