Calculating Quotes

• I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

  Roald Dahl

  Believe In Yourself, Pockets, Littles

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

  Galen Rowell

  Inspirational, Photography, Nature

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• Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Life, Numbers, Paper

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• The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Moon, Heaven

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Vices, Audacity, Innocence

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• Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

  Katherine Applegate

  Selfish, Passionate, Violent

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• Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?

  Bisco Hatori

  Fun, Care, Ifs

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• I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Atheist, Believe, Hypocrite

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• The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general.

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Art, War

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Country, Sin, Said

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Wise, Spiritual, Two

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• Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Mergers, Surrender

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• Just understand, don`t choose - don`t choose even choicelessness. Simply understand the whole situation: that whatsoever you choose, whatsoever you do, will come out of the calculating mind. It cannot be the real thing. Your mind can only produce dreams, it cannot produce the truth. Truth cannot be produced, nobody can produce it. It is there; it has to be seen. Nothing has to be done, just a look is needed - a look without any prejudice, a look without any choice, a look without any distinctions.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Real, Choices

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• The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens.

  Karel Appel

  Art, Thinking, Style

  "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, 1990.

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• DAILY TRAINING in the Art of Peace allows your inner divinity to shine brighter and brighter. Do not concern yourself with the right and wrong of others. Do not be calculating or act unnaturally. Keep your mind focused on the Art of Peace, and do not criticize other teachers or traditions. The Art of Peace never restrains or shackles anything. It embraces all and purifies everything.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teacher, Art, Shining

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.

  Anna Lappe

  Spiritual, Winning, Choices

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• The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the expert consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Skills, People

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.109, Psychology Press

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• 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.

  Annie Besant

  Easter, Hero, Moon

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.796, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hero, Dwarves, Ideas

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

  Ryohgo Narita

  Miracle, Luck, Mind

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• I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

  Kanye West

  People, Stuff, Sides

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• I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, Political, Bankers

  "'I Do What I Do Because I Have To'". ZNet Interview, www.outlookindia.com. May 28, 2003.

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• Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

  Donella Meadows

  Tasks, Forests, Politician

  "No Point in Waiting Around for Leadership". The Global Citizen, November 30, 2000.

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• People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Country, Illinois, People

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