Joanna Coles Quotes

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

The ones doing that, counting me out, are going to look silly.

There's a big advantage in people underestimating you.

If someone underestimates you because you are warm and approachable, then you have an advantage over them.

A lot of fighters underestimate me. And what do you know? They end up being on the canvas.

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

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

It is fine that General MacArthur is arrogant and stubborn. An arrogant and stubborn enemy is easier to defeat.

That's always a funny thing, when people think they're known for every little thing they ever did, and they're really not.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he's doing. He's focusing in on what you're doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

I have made a very good living, for more than 30 years, by being underestimated.

Only a fool would think the league was already won after just ten games.

When someone thinks they're good at something, you can use it against them, and that's what we did. We did the kiss of death.

Players can underestimate the Premier League.

It's not being disrespectful, but the less you know an opponent, the more work you have to do.

When the premiere of the show came out, we threw a big party, and, like, five minutes into the party, me and Corey walked out of the party and said... 'No one's ever gonna watch this.'

Don't underestimate this little fat boy.

You always think you're ready earlier than you are.

Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.