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But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Linda McCartney

Wish, Wanted

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My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.

J. C. R. Licklider

Science, Men, Thinking

"In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".

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Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

Louis Stanley

Racing, Machines, Slot Machines

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In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.

Alexander Kotov

Player, Order, Class

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Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

Mikhail Botvinnik

Moving, Years, Variation

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What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

Peter Viereck

Air, Oxygen, Stopping

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Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

Robert Greene

Art, Goal, Focus

Twitter post from Sep 30, 2014

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When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.

Gabrielle Roth

Teacher, Fall, Being Alone

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I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.

John M. Culkin

Baseball, Thinking, Games

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Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death is considered loss and life is considered gain. Thus, death is something that such a person does not care for, and he is contemptable. Furthermore, scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed. People often misjudge this.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Truth, Loss, Men

Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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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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Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

Fred Hoyle

Atoms, Would Be, Chance

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We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Book, Reading, Profound

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.331

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Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

Mooji

Mind, World, Spirituality

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My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.

Anjelica Huston

Wise, Father, Thinking

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Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific.

Frank Luntz

Cold, Researchers, Traditional

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Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.

Bernard Darwin

Wise, Golf, Games

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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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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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Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.

Walter Schellenberg

Enemy, Lines, Cold

"The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 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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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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