#estimate

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. ↗

— Iggy Pop

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I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices. ↗

— Rachael Ray

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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

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Problem with an old friend who is too busy: he always perceives you as if never changed. ↗

— Toba Beta

#busy #underestimate #business

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#children #feelings #i #like #me

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

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