Overestimation Quotes

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

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.

There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.

Technology always takes longer [to develop] than you think.

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.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

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.

For people at the bottom who are really doing badly — those in the bottom 10th or 15th percentile — they think their work falls in the 60th or 55th percentile, so, above average. People at the bottom still think they're outperforming other people.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it's game over for everyone else.

Failure was built into it by an extraordinary of exaggerated expectations.

A fool can never be made to question his own wisdom. And George Groves is very foolish. He believes his own nonsense. He cannot stay with me for 12 rounds. He's not tough enough.

May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!

… a pygmy who should not be set on a pedestal

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?