Estimations Quotes & Sayings

In addition to labeling kids who learn differently as problematic, sometimes defective, most schools classify, track, and categorize students from very early ages. As an abundance of research studies confirm, these classifications tend to become self-perpetuating and self-confirming. My interviewees illuminate the ways in which grades, tests, and opportunities to learn are often arbitrary or related to class, race, and gender. In the supposed meritocracy of schooling, these markers and estimations have profound impact, not just structuring how we fit into the learning hierarchy of an individual classroom, but who we are who whom we believe we will become. — Kirsten Olson

For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers. — Rudolf Rocker

How foolish it would be to suppose that one only needs to point out this origin and this misty shroud of delusion in order to destroy the world that counts for real, so-called 'reality.' We can destroy only as creators.
But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new 'things. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity. — Howard Lyman

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes. — Peter McWilliams

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back. — Abraham A. Ribicoff

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little. — Stephen Charnock

I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something. — Adam Jones

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism. — Leonard Ravenhill

Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each. — Scott Meyers

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship. — Aristotle.

Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on its military than do all other nations on earth put together, and military expenditures are not only the basis of the government's industrial policy; they also take up such a huge proportion of the budget that by many estimations, were it not for them, the United States would not run a deficit at all. — David Graeber

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. — Eugene Ionesco

Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live. — Steve Pavlina

When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno. — Pedro Winter

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. — Imran Khan

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. — Roy Amara

Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone. — Janet Morris

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations — Os Guinness

You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world. — Dorothy Richardson

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl. — Lizzy Caplan

There is Carrie Underwood, of course Miranda Lambert, and Taylor Swift - the three blondes in country music. They inspire me a lot, and just watching them perform and just be superstars is a big inspiration to me and it helps me learn. — Danielle Bradbery