Overestimated Quotes

I feel overestimated.

— Tom Stoppard

I have to admit, I underestimated Billie Jean and overestimated myself.

— Bobby Riggs

“Since all of them overestimated the competition, no one even showed up.”

— Timothy Ferriss

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

— Christina Stead

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I am not to be underestimated. Overestimated, maybe, but underestimated? No.”

— Saumya Sharman

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

— Oscar Wilde

“the will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity.”

— Tom Robbins

“Once again, I’ve overestimated my importance.”

— Adam Where She Went Gayle Forman

To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

— Robert Henri

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a…

— Robert Breault

Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.

— Mary Quant

“Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else’s.”

— David Baldacci

“she thought that after what she had been through during the invasion she would stop being petty and grow up, grow wise…

— Milan Kundera

They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.

— Blaize Clement

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone elses.

— Anonymous

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in…

— Francis Collins

I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I never underestimated or overestimated myself. You should know where you stand. Moreover, you should have confi'dence in yourself because if you…

— Mumtaz

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of…

— Jorge Amado

“It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled…

— Gwenn Wright

Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate…

— Brian Wansink

“If you actually want me to fill in the blanks on this hopelessly boring information, you must be out of your fucking…

— Cardeno C

Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“He studied her, his eyes unreadable, his entire body one long solid line. Gone was the dangerously teasing cranky Bear. This was…

— Rebecca Zanetti

I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your…

— Glenda Bailey

“Do you suppose it all means something? That we're being left clues? Perhaps. Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated…

— Colin Cotterill

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

— Alexander Haig

“But perhaps I took the serious-minded too seriously and overestimated the maturity of the mature.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

— Anonymous

Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new…

— Erich von Manstein