Calculating Quotes - Page 4

• The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for every attack there is a defense.... The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage. Above all, he must have a will to win.

  Franz Stampfl

  Moving, Winning, Games

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• Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven.

  James McCosh

  Eye, Humility, Pride

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 485, 1895.

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• If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Data, Body, Might

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• To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

  Mary Stewart

  Sleep, Air, Years

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Leadership, Party, Political

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• Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

  John Sununu

  Country, Educational, America

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• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Witty, Time

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

  Neil Gaiman

  Warning, Chicks, Proverbial

  "Stardust". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1998.

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• I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

  Barbara Mertz

  Girl, Manipulation, Cold

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• Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Osmosis, Design

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• All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Ambition, Greatness

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, chapter III: Of Mixed Princedoms, 1513.

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• And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.

  Mark Haddon

  Stars, Nice, Taken

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• Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sincerity

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.29

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• Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently.

  Lucio Russo

  Latin, Civilization, Earth

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  World, This World, Certainty

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.273

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• What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind.... while her eyes are brimming with tears.

  Esther Vilar

  Eye, Men, Mind

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• Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.

  Richard Rohr

  Ocean, Moving, Thinking

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity peaks. Ironically, these are the times that I would flunk the reality check normally reserved for mental patients and dazed boxers: What is your name? What day is it? Who is the president of the United States?... I do not know, and I do not care. I am at peace with my equations as I connect to the cosmic engines that drive our universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Reality, Names, President

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• Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

  Bertrand Russell

  Respect, People, Machines

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.46, Routledge

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• As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish--about half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.

  Robertson Davies

  Blessed, Tragedy, Half

  Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

  Greg Norman

  Lying, Golf, Doctors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.

  Andre Brie

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Computer

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• Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs of the poor. And the prices of rice, bread and beans play a small role in calculating PPPs even though they play a huge role in meeting the consumption needs of the poor. So the World Bank's method of comparing and converting everything at general purchasing power parities into US dollars is highly distorting within an exercise whose purpose it is to determine whether households are or are not capable of meeting their basic consumption needs.

  Thomas Pogge

  Exercise, Play, Car

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Thinking, President

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• What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

  J. G. Ballard

  Death, Children, Car

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