Let us never underestimate the motivational force that the belief in Scripture’s divine proximity has upon exegetes. They open the book having already invested their faith in the proposition that it is underwritten by God.
We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become.
tommy douglasNever underestimate the power of a good story.
john kotterNever underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.
john kotterOf course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
jerry pournelleOur task in conjunction with the Merchant Navies of the United Nations, and supported by the Allied Air Forces, is to carry the Allied Expeditionary Force to the Continent, to establish it there in a secure bridgehead and to build it up and maintain it at a rate which will outmatch that of the enemy. Let no one underestimate the magnitude of this task.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
andrew s. tanenbaumToo often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.
eliezer yudkowskyDon't underestimate the Force.
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
Jack BlackIt is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life .
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
"I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment."
I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality ... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
oliver stoneThere is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.
john f. kennedy