Calibrated Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in… — Robin Winks
Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas… — Luc Ferrari
When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera,… — Annie Dillard
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons,… — Rebecca Solnit
Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex… — Luc Ferrari
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of… — Derek R. Audette
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way. — Nate Silver
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months… — Sarah Dessen
To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as… — Richard Russo
The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a… — Bruno Latour
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. — Carl Sagan
I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk. — John Scalzi
Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if… — Paul Bloom
The road ahead does not have to be feared. As journeymen on this Earth, we are made to perservere and calibrated to prevail. — Ritu Ghatourey

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14 authors contributed a total of 15 Calibrated Quotes as follows: