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You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Scott Adams

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Albert Einstein

These are not hazards that kill thousands of children every year, like vehicle crashes or drowning, but they are so easy to prevent and the consequences can be so severe. Don't underestimate the possibility of a small child being crushed by unsteady furniture.

Anne Franchak

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

We're sending a message. Just because we lost to Woodside doesn't mean we're not still ready. Don't underestimate us.

Tiffany Davis

No retailer can afford to underestimate the importance of good marketing and public relations. Target also comes across as a better corporate citizen than Wal-Mart because it makes it a point to inform people about its efforts to give back to communities.

George Whalin

You never expect it until it happens. We certainly didn't underestimate Bald Eagle.

Tina Gaughan

Her brothers started her out in wrestling. They give her advice about moves that are easy. They tell her to stay tough and not to show that she's ever afraid. She's a silent type but don't underestimate her.

Kathy Mccauley

Never underestimate internalized racism. People can be oppressed, yet continue to express their oppression in their own choices.

Susan Morris

I would never underestimate that team. But right now the rate of change seems to be moving against them.

Dick Lampman

I think our perimeter play has been solid all year. Other teams underestimate our guards, and we've got a year's more experience inside.

Matt Harr

Romain is a tough out. A lot of guys underestimate him, but you really have to beat him. If he's going to lose, he's going to go down fighting.

Owen Hambrook

People vastly underestimate that the deal is not happening because of the regulatory rhetoric they are hearing. People will be surprised at how easy it will be.

Richard Klugman

We haven't seen Fremont play this year, but we're aware of the history between the schools. We can't underestimate anybody.

Will Fortner

It is important for parents and guardians to not underestimate the gravity of the situation. Overweight backpacks can result in numerous short-term and chronic health concerns.

David Thorpe

Don't underestimate the power of the values voters, especially in a Republican primary.

Phil Burress

Always underestimate George Bush, and they are still doing it.

Whit Ayres

The girls are enjoying the ride. I told them if you want keep the ride going, you can't underestimate anyone or look ahead.

Darren Jackson

He's not your classical sexy type but he is Batman and you can never underestimate the powers of a superhero!

Christian Bale

We've come out in every game and never taken anyone lightly. We knew what we would have to do to win in every game. We never underestimate any opponent.

Brad Lowe

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

Claud Cockburn

Very few of my opponents underestimate me. It doesn't matter if I can see them if they're on their back.

Sara Parson

We cannot let down our guard, we cannot underestimate the risks of the outbreaks.

Hui Liangyu

We knew they were going to come back. You can't underestimate a team like Marist. We stayed strong and we had fun. You play your best when you have fun.

Jacqie Storm

You can't underestimate the long-term impact of the events center. This always has been about improving the quality of life here, and this is a great step.

Greg Edwards

Don't underestimate the power of sport as a way of rehabilitating young people.

Robert Davies

Policy makers here in Washington vastly underestimate the destabilizing effect of this lucrative underground market. As long as there are billions of dollars at stake, you'll always have people willing to get into the trade.

Tim Lynch

You'd be surprised how common it is to underestimate how much you're really eating.

Lisa Young

Students would have a tendency, from my understanding, to underestimate the amount of alcohol they are drinking.

Tammy Loew

Local governments often underestimate the very significant ongoing capital and operating costs of wireless systems while overestimating penetration rates and revenue streams.

Robert Rowe

We've got speed and I think we are using it very much to our advantage. But don't underestimate our talent level. We've got a lot of very good players. And we're confident like I have never seen us before.

Jere Lehtinen

We are not going to underestimate Crossroads because they beat a tough Marion team to get where they are. We just need to continue to work hard and play to the level we did tonight.

Keisha Brown

He caught a deep route here (in practice), so I guess he's still got it. You can't underestimate Isaac.

Jerametrius Butler

Everybody always talks about his shot, but they certainly underestimate how well he read the game. He could make even the most skilled forwards look silly on occasion.

Jamal Mayers

And they don't need Florida's votes in the next election either. I cannot underestimate the importance of that. They want to lease millions of acres off Florida's coast.

Mark Ferrulo

Teams underestimate me because of my size.

Porsha Morgan

For anybody who would underestimate SAFER, I would say a lot of people underestimated them in Denver.

Bruce Mirken

Rebounding is something I can do every night. You can't depend on you're offense every night because the shots aren't always going to fall. People underestimate me because of my size.

Marcus Grant

I think sometimes people underestimate the Albuquerque connection, but we all came through.

Gavin Maloof

The statistics undoubtedly underestimate the true nature of the problem. Drowsy driving, definitely, is one of the largest and less appreciated problems in traffic safety.

Peter Kissinger

I underestimated them a little bit, seeing how they lost to Nebraska. But that won't happen again. We won't underestimate anybody any more.

Brandon Rush

I admit I am satisfied, but I don't think it will be easy. We are not stupid enough to underestimate them. We must play two perfect games, we don't have room for error.

Otto Baric

They really are engaged in their own Manhattan project. And they are deadly serious about this. And it would be foolish to underestimate their capacity and their will here.

Marc Gerecht

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

Natalie Goldberg

Anywhere in the United States, people underestimate water and its strength. It doesn't take that much moving water to cause problems for the vehicle.

Brad Doyle

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.

Debbie Gibson

We shouldn't underestimate the importance of this issue.

Sen. Donald Defronzo

The lesson we have learned with this kind of technology is that people overestimate the impact in the short run and underestimate the impact in the long run.

Morten Kyng

Never underestimate a club like Real Madrid because they have got such power and depth.

David Dein

To put some kind of capstone to manage the portfolio on top of it, that can be pretty powerful. They're not the first to underestimate that opportunity, but they're doing a pretty good job of holding it together.

Carey Schwaber

I think the history is such that we underestimate the mental health problems, ... As people see what they consider sort of a hopeless situation - bodies floating on the water, the scene like they saw in the Superdome - people are not ready for that. They are not prepared to deal with it.

David Satcher

People often underestimate how difficult it is to get medicines in other countries. You can buy over-the-counter drugs but you can't be 100 percent sure you have the right thing. They could be the wrong medication or the dosage may not be the same.

Chuck Salka

Brandywine probably plays us tougher than any other team in the conference. I never will underestimate Brandywine.

Kevin Bartz

You can underestimate the importance of playing every day. I've learned that the hard way.

Preston Wilson

We cannot underestimate the possible loss to the reserves if, in the long run, the United States adopts a weak-dollar policy and we are still maintaining a high level of dollar reserves.

Xia Bin

People don't realize it because he's small, but Cory has really been driving the ball. People may underestimate his ability. He's a strong kid.

Terry Piazza

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

John Mayer

It's an honor to join those guys, but I really haven't paid attention to the home runs because I just want to win. I always knew I could do it. I'm a smaller guy, but I have some power in my bat. I like it when people underestimate me. It's like a challenge.

Felipe Lopez

It's that underdog mentality. It fits Iowa State perfectly. Want to overlook us? Underestimate us? Pick us at the bottom of the Big 12? Fine. That's what we want.

Nik Moser

He's a big, tall, physical guy and has a lot of ball awareness, ... He is a guy who can stretch the field. I think most people who play against him kind of underestimate his speed up and down the field. Because he's a tall guy, he has a longer stride.

Travis Fisher

We hope they continue to underestimate us.

Michael Coe

We don't look at their record. They just make more runs than we do down the stretch. Guys tend to hit shots that they usually don't hit. I don't think we underestimate nobody.

Jamaal Tinsley

I've learned never to underestimate the sense of humor of a kid, ... But does it matter if the joke flies over a kid's head? No. As long as my girlfriend thinks it's funny, it stays.

Dav Pilkey

We continue to underestimate the move to a service-oriented economy. The traditional manufacturing side of the U.S. economy will continue to shrink.

Ben Hock

It's a conservative budget. We always overestimate our expenditures and underestimate our revenues, so we should be in pretty good shape by the end of the year.

Peter Flynn

Arundel is a fairly good team and if we can beat them here, then I think we can hang with the other teams in the area. Our goal is to win out the rest of the season, so don't underestimate us.

Dan Burns

China is a big opportunity. I don't disagree. People, however, underestimate the long-term implications of China for Korea.

Tariq Hussain

I don't want to underestimate the difficulty of this, because Colombia is paradise next to Afghanistan.

Anne Patterson

We thought we were better than we really were. We have to come out and know that any given Saturday we can lose. That's how it is. You have to be able to play football with a heart and passion and not underestimate anyone.

Maurice Drew

This is a seminal, international document. It's impossible to underestimate what a big deal this is.

Stanton Glantz

I would not underestimate their ability to market this franchise, ... I don't think it will move the needle that much at Disney, but it's a good fit for them.

Michael Nathanson

We have been shut out since last year, and haven't done much to change people's minds until now. It's OK, let them underestimate us. We want to keep improving and be playing our best hockey of the year when playoffs come, and let the chips fall where they may.

Joe Zappala

Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, ... Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

Sherrod Brown

I wouldn't say people underestimate me, but I think some of the things I do are unexpected. I think it comes as a shock to some people.

Jacob Martin

You're tying your money together. Here's where I'd definitely want everything spelled out, including what's going to happen if someone in the group develops a chronic illness. Also, people tend to underestimate how long they might live: Say you live to be 100. Will you be able to support this style of living that long?

Sandra Timmerman

We always expect any team can beat you. Coach Mike stresses the fact that you can't underestimate anybody.

Jermaine Wallace

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Theodore Dreiser

Too 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.

Leo F. Buscaglia

The fact that I'm underrated or whatever doesn't bother me. In fact, I'd rather be the underdog. That way, people usually underestimate you.

Dalila Eshe

They say No Child Left Behind should be watered down, schools can't handle change, some children just can't learn. We say, do not underestimate our public schools, do not underestimate our teachers, and never underestimate our children.

Rod Paige

It was their first game without her (Smith), we didn't want to underestimate them. She was a franchise player, I don't know what that would feel like not playing with someone like that all of a sudden.

Kara Lawson

I think one of the things the buddies didn't expect was for them (the partners) to do as much as they can. People underestimate what they can do ... They don't have all the boundaries I think society puts on them. They can go as far as we can, they just have to take a different path to get there, I think.

Meredith Barrett

You can't underestimate the fact that we still need to get a lot better to win.

Terry Hutchinson

We've got to restore customer confidence, ... Let's not underestimate the marketplace out there.

Tony Woodley

It will be a fun time. I've wrestled my opponent twice before and pinned him both times. But I'm not going to underestimate him. I'm going to come out aggressive.

Sterling Coons

Never underestimate Bruton Smith, ... He's got a lot of P.T. Barnum in him.

Gary Baker

You can never underestimate the potential for OPEC to do the wrong thing and push prices with their rhetoric or actions.

John Kilduff

We cannot afford to underestimate any of our opponents but if we continue to play as we have done so far this summer, then we will qualify.

Javier Zanetti

One day when he was eating a cookie he offered me a bite. Don't underestimate that. The poor guy's so frightened of germs, it could darn near have been a proposal.

Jean Harlow

We would welcome any rules for an international agreement of any kind to prohibit this work. I think you shouldn't underestimate the difficulties of this research.

Ian Wilmut

I don't think people should underestimate the potential for LNG in China in the longer term.

Standard Life

It's teamwork at its finest. People underestimate how smart a dog really is.

Jeff Ulsamer

If I give him a window of opportunity to get lucky, he has a great chance of upsetting me, ... I respect Roy and I can't underestimate him. If I do, that's his only chance for success.

Antonio Tarver

People often underestimate how much money it takes to live in retirement.

Deborah Voso

[Todd Campbell, president of Watchdog Research, an independent research firm, is one.] Never underestimate the mania of the market, ... It's absolutely possible.

Todd Campbell

We do not underestimate them at all, but it appears the Republican Party in Tennessee is in considerable disarray.

Bob Tuke

[Some analysts doubt that the deal will face any real hurdles before it is finalized.] People vastly underestimate that the deal is not happening because of the regulatory rhetoric they are hearing, ... People will be surprised at how easy it will be.

Richard Klugman

I didn't underestimate them. I don't know about the team. I knew they could play. I saw it on tape. Coach told us.

Roy Booker

People underestimate the degree to which having leaders who can get along makes a big difference. But there aren't any huge expectations that somehow relations between Germany and the United States will be transformed overnight or approach anything like the way they were before the Cold War ended.

Gary Schmitt

Facing a team with this type of record, there is a tendency to underestimate that type of opponent. But they're a solid team that has had a couple bad breaks at inopportune times and can beat anyone.

Weylan Harding

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.

Cory Doctorow

It's obviously a reflection of the programs we have in place and the improvement in our in-store execution -- but don't underestimate the impact of the unseasonably mild weather we had in the fourth quarter.

Robert Niblock

All the studies show that parents underestimate their own kid's risk behaviors versus what kids report they're actually doing. There's a big gap.

Anthony Wolf

A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l.

John Allen Paulos

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

Iain Duncan Smith

She's found in him somebody who makes her laugh. You can never underestimate the power of humor.

John Scurti

It's so exciting. We always underestimate how important this area was in history.

Karen Anderson

Very foolish to underestimate the potential for the disease to spread.

David Byrne

One of my favorite things to say about Wayne is that you should never underestimate him. He loves the game. He has a fantasy camp every year, and he plays with every team and in every game. He just loves being on the ice.

Kevin Lowe

Why and how, I'm not sure. I think we underestimate their feeling of history, the fact that they care. I think they get pinned with a broad brush: 'They don't care, it doesn't matter to them.' But I think our best players will step up.

Chris Mullin

We cannot underestimate the risk that this mission brings, ... The possible risks to the coalition include terrorist actions, both in the areas where the military is deployed as well as on respective national territories.

Antonio Martino

I definitely feel like we should have taken two today. We didn't underestimate them. We knew they would come out fired up from their play against Princeton Sunday.

Stephanie Reichert

We looked at the schedule and saw it was Lincoln-Way East. They're not ranked and you kind of underestimate teams. That's when you get upset.

Kevin Dillard

Some of the people we've caught have come from as far away as the interior of Mexico from as far south as Mexico City. But most don't realize it's 70-80 miles, as the crow flies, from the border to the first east-west highway in and out of Alpine and there is nothing in between. People who underestimate that from a physical or watering standpoint come looking for help.

Mark Spier

We took care of business. We knew that we'd come in and have to battle. I just wanted the kids to come in and not underestimate anybody. We came and did the things we had to do to win so I'm proud of them.

Justin Judkins

I don't think anyone should underestimate the influence this agreement will have. I think other people are going to want to follow this agreement because it just makes sense.

Susan Neely

I love that they have such a grand vision but they can't underestimate the complexity of growing in the U.S. market.

David Marra

You can't underestimate what Boston can do with the bats.

Gabe Gross

We should not underestimate the chances of a split parliament that would ultimately result in political paralysis.

Vincenzo Guzzo

We were trying not to underestimate them but we might have been looking ahead. Fort Myers can go as far as they want to go.

Darryl Burrows

We actually joke about it, how we don't look like a typical varsity team. And I think teams do underestimate us because of our size. Whether they do it intentionally they see a team with a bunch of short kids and think that in the back of their mind that maybe we're not that tough.

Greg Schrimpf

We underestimate just how distressing the menopausal side effects of treatment are, and women acknowledge that they take drug holidays when hot flushes get really bad.

Lesley Fallowfield

It is important to play our game and not underestimate our opponent. We play because we love the game, we need to show that love.

Bridget Grall

I think it would be a mistake to underestimate him.

Erik Smith

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Ed Colligan

Don't underestimate the power of our bipartisan coalition in the House.

Zack Wamp