Calculated Quotes

210 quotes by 191 authors

I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead… — Tony Blair
Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the… — Louis Nizer
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. — Sydney J. Harris
I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is… — Akio Morita
The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude and one calculated… — Robert Bellarmine
The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money… — Curtis Bean Dall
Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought. — Antoni Tapies
God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time… — Baron d'Holbach
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it… — Edward Sapir
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between… — Charles Lyell
The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we… — Robert H. Jackson
To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure… — Jimmy Doolittle
From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress. — Carl Albert
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds… — Ben Marcus
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe… — Samuel Alexander
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book, — William Godwin
There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is... Joe Torre… — Michael Kay
Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced. — Taiichi Ohno
My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is… — Robert Fulton

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