Calculated Quotes

210 quotes by 191 authors

The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself… — David Dunn
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and… — Freeman Dyson
The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a… — Ivor Novello
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. — Warren E. Burger
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it… — Henry Petroski
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I… — Anne Tyler
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to… — Maxwell Maltz
Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why… — Grigori Perelman
Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious… — Mike Seabrook
Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests. — Ambrose Bierce
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half — Jan Timman
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated. — Levon Aronian
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated. — Leonid Shamkovich
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during… — Bruce Chatwin
You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something — Dhirubhai Ambani
It has been calculated thatÂ one marginal win is worth $7 millionÂ andÂ we canÂ increaseÂ that by five percentÂ each yearÂ to figure out… — Max Scherzer
Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future. — L. Ron Hubbard
A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently cannot yet be… — Thomas Addison
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace,… — Orson Pratt
To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better… — Peter Cundill

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