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I think people overestimate the importance of the Security Council president, it's largely a procedural, diplomatic function and the fact that Russia has been chairing all these meetings on Ukraine hasn’t enabled it to stop the Council meeting pretty much every other day since Monday and meeting again [Saturday] to refer the situation to the General Assembly. – Richard Gowan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If the U.S. was president, they might have called for more consultations, they could issue a statement on behalf of the council, a presidential statement, kind of a summary of activity, and you could editorialize a little bit in that, i think people overestimate the importance of the Security Council president, it's largely a procedural, diplomatic function and the fact that Russia has been chairing all these meetings on Ukraine hasn’t enabled it to stop the Council meeting pretty much every other day since Monday and meeting again [Saturday] to refer the situation to the General Assembly. – Hugh Dugan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The way I often think about vaccine hesitancy is that people often overestimate the risk of the vaccine and underestimate the risk of the disease. – William Moss	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You can't overestimate how big the president's profile is in the UK. The betting interest has extended beyond political gamblers. – Pete Watt	Found on CNN 3 years ago
People overestimate how grand these stories need to be, look through your life's moments of distress and when you led clearly and confidently. – Aman Brar	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We tend to overestimate the likelihood of something happening, and we tend to underestimate our capacity to deal with it. – Lynn Bufka	Found on CNN 4 years ago
People always overestimate what they can do in one year, but they underestimate what they can do in 10-20 years. – Kees Koolen	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You get on a plane and you think you are going to crash because you greatly overestimate the number of planes that actually crash. – David Anderegg	Found on CNN 8 years ago
People overestimate how much time they need to devote to physical fitness in order to live a long, healthy life. – Michael Seril	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The farther down the income scale you go, the greater they overestimate. – Terry Hartle	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This discovery is hard to overestimate. – Vladimir Airapetian	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Neither intervention had a significant effect on intention to vaccinate, and we probably overestimate how likely messaging is to change people minds about vaccines. – Brendan Nyhan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
patients do often overestimate their contralateral breast cancer risk and do not realize how low it really is. – Katharine Yao	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! – Tony Robbins	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can't overestimate it! – Steve Jobs	added by anonymous 12 years ago

I think people overestimate the importance of the Security Council president, it's largely a procedural, diplomatic function and the fact that Russia has been chairing all these meetings on Ukraine hasn’t enabled it to stop the Council meeting pretty much every other day since Monday and meeting again [Saturday] to refer the situation to the General Assembly.

– Richard Gowan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If the U.S. was president, they might have called for more consultations, they could issue a statement on behalf of the council, a presidential statement, kind of a summary of activity, and you could editorialize a little bit in that, i think people overestimate the importance of the Security Council president, it's largely a procedural, diplomatic function and the fact that Russia has been chairing all these meetings on Ukraine hasn’t enabled it to stop the Council meeting pretty much every other day since Monday and meeting again [Saturday] to refer the situation to the General Assembly.

– Hugh Dugan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The way I often think about vaccine hesitancy is that people often overestimate the risk of the vaccine and underestimate the risk of the disease.

– William Moss

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

You can't overestimate how big the president's profile is in the UK. The betting interest has extended beyond political gamblers.

– Pete Watt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

People overestimate how grand these stories need to be, look through your life's moments of distress and when you led clearly and confidently.

– Aman Brar

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We tend to overestimate the likelihood of something happening, and we tend to underestimate our capacity to deal with it.

– Lynn Bufka

Found on CNN
4 years ago

People always overestimate what they can do in one year, but they underestimate what they can do in 10-20 years.

– Kees Koolen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You get on a plane and you think you are going to crash because you greatly overestimate the number of planes that actually crash.

– David Anderegg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People overestimate how much time they need to devote to physical fitness in order to live a long, healthy life.

– Michael Seril

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The farther down the income scale you go, the greater they overestimate.

– Terry Hartle

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This discovery is hard to overestimate.

– Vladimir Airapetian

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Neither intervention had a significant effect on intention to vaccinate, and we probably overestimate how likely messaging is to change people minds about vaccines.

– Brendan Nyhan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

patients do often overestimate their contralateral breast cancer risk and do not realize how low it really is.

– Katharine Yao

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

– Tony Robbins

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

– Eric Hoffer

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can't overestimate it!

– Steve Jobs

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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