Calculated Quotes

What was premeditated murder if not calculated leverage? — James Patterson

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect. — David Benioff

Nor was Mr. Bumble's gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator. There — Charles Dickens

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated. — Paul Gauguin

Naturalist Roger Tory Peterson has calculated that the Olympic Rain Forest is weighted down with more living matter than any other place on earth. — Timothy Egan

Was a man who wrote his own press kit, and his generosity was a calculated piece of an intracately constructed character — Khaled Hosseini

Just about everything a Nice Guy does is consciously or unconsciously calculated to gain someone's approval or to avoid disapproval. — Robert A. Glover

Yet I have come to distrust book jackets calculated to prick desire like a Bloomingdale's window, as if you could wear what you read. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision. — John Goodwin

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. — Charles Duhigg

The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion — Joe Rogan

Calculated and craven political stunt. — Tom DeLay

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress. — Carl Albert

You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning. — Paula Deen

Entrepreneurs are not risk takers. They are calculated risk takers. — Ashwin Sanghi

Kaufman calculated the risks of his situation: the mathematics of panic. — Clive Barker

I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated. — Drake

To achieve something, action is needed; but thoughtful and calculated action is better. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary. — Iain McGilchrist

There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch. — Peter Roebuck

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him. — Orson Welles

One harder than the one before it, and IQ is calculated based — Malcolm Gladwell

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected. — Federico Fellini

For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical. — Daniel Boulud

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences. — Celia Green

Beginning to work your plan means movement and action. The success of your movements and actions can only be guaranteed if they are well calculated. — Archibald Marwizi

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction. — Mark McCormack

I don't live by other people's time tables; I live by Gods. — Shannon L. Alder

Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. — Samuel Richardson

That was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble. — Jeff VanderMeer

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth. — Jeremy Bentham

Revenge is more wild, less calculated ... deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp) — Vince Flynn

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. — Warren E. Burger

Calculated risk taking will pay huge dividends. How will you ever get to third base with one foot on second? The biggest risk is not taking risks. — Robin S. Sharma

I felt the tablecloth move, and it's a calculated guess based on years of experience. I'm right, aren't I? — E.L. James

Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important. — Harold Ramis

I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. — Dean Alfange

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. — William Cobbett

An affection that was calculated was never trustworthy. — John Irving

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. — Alexander Haig

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. — Sydney J. Harris

Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind. — Andrew Jackson

We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity. — Andrew Miller

Stupidity was when you took risks for no good reason. Courage was when you took a calculated risk in order to accomplish something important. Had — Brandon Mull

Take calculated risks. — George S. Patton

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

I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves. — Jen Kirkman

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk. — Edmund H. North

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential. — Jane Fonda

Anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate — Richelle Mead

Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe. — Bill Blass

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework. — Georgette Mosbacher

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

Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company. — Ray Kroc

Everyday take one optimistic calculated risk to find out how far you can go. — Debasish Mridha

We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories. — William Howard Taft

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced. — Taiichi Ohno

Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated. — Robert Barron

He moved like a jungle cat, all purposeful, calculated motion - wrapped up in fluid grace. — Brigid Kemmerer

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought. — Antoni Tapies

It was a calculated risk."
"It was cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best. Believe me, I know the difference. — Leigh Bardugo

At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape — Thom Yorke

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison

His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing. — Richard Russo

For me ... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage ... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk. — Jessica Watson

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions. — Eddie Perez

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

When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible. — David Green

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else. — Mason Cooley

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled. — Martin Luther

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security. — Yitzhak Rabin

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying. — Ilka Chase

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future. — L. Ron Hubbard

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. — Edward Abbey

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something — Dhirubhai Ambani

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. — F Scott Fitzgerald

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings. — Harry Patch

I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated. — Kevin Smith

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found. — Thomas Paine

ROA: is the company taking the best advantage of assets? ROA is calculated by dividing the net profit by total assets. For — Georgi Tsvetanov

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated. — Margaret Wertheim

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. — Erica Jong

The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love. — Antony Flew

Secretly, of course, the pauses in our correspondence were as calculated as our casualness. — Marina Keegan

Calculated risk is an opportunity;
careless risk a potential tragedy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Was mutual need enough to risk more lives trusting a calculated enemy in hopes of destroying a more powerful one? — Richelle E. Goodrich

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated. — Drake

I think there should be tribunals for social cruelty as there are for physical assault. Calculated cuts in the first degree. Snobicide or its reverse. — Peter Heller

Value isn't calculated by a person's net worth or income. It's calculated by integrity and decency. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give. — Dave Ramsey

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it. — David Edward Kirk

I know that the chances for success are slim.
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But odds are mathematical formulas calculated to give people a reason not to try. — Jude Watson

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want. — Chris Hayes

The risk I took was calculated, but, man, am I bad at math! — Unknown

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths. — Kenneth Fisher

Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air. — Francois Arago

Life is a series of calculated risks, James. I happen to think that this one is worth it. — Lish McBride