That we often underestimate how, once into positions of power, the effects we have another people.
(Even those numbers are necessarily underestimates. Once the lines are all busy and the voice mail is maxed out, all the other calls coming in go undetected, a storm after the rain gauge is full).
That organic momentum can't be underestimated, but once it got in, Apple had to give IT something to work with.
Did Nadal underestimate his opponent once he took the lead (though he'd already had losses to a player, he'd once easily dispatched, earlier in the year)?
"How did you know that?" "It says 'Moo-On Detector' on the box" Never underestimate children, especially once they learn to read.
He even cites Russia's Gazprom, which controls more gas reserves than all the West's big oil firms combined.Just as the West once underestimated the potential of emerging markets, now it underestimates the power of the region's corporate champions, Mr van Agtmael believes.
Given how badly S.& P. once underestimated the risks, it is certainly possible that it is now overestimating them.
Lambert pulls off the shift in style because she has talent and charisma on a par with Dolly Parton, another blond beauty who was once underestimated.
But a day later it seemed clear that ESPN had blundered by overestimating its ability to keep its and Lee's decision quiet and underestimating the reaction once it became public.
Nobody in this town is quite what he or she seems to be, whether it's Carl's ex-wife, Chrissy, or Luke Richardson, the town's used car dealer and real estate mogul, or the quiet and underestimated Adam Goldsmith, who once loved Elizabeth.
Now, looking back, I understand much more clearly the real kinship I had with Molly, who raised a family, and watched a husband and a beloved child pass away — a kinship rooted, as I say in the book, in the permanent precariousness of the professional classes in a plutocratic society, but also in the sheer difficulty of life, which I once underestimated.
