Calculating Quotes - Page 5

Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

Myles Munroe

People, Tiles, Stuff

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Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

Paul Wolfowitz

Teaching, Math, Thinking

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There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

Tom Holt

Squares, Play, Roots

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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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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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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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I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

Melissa Sue Anderson

Self, Enjoy, Reserved

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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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I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

Chris O'Donnell

Trying, Answers, Way

"Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. March 1, 1996.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or just an average, sometimes the way you are calculating your numbers doesn't make any sense. Sometimes it's best to get up, take a walk, and revisit your calculations later. I have returned to my work many times and said: "Why the hell would I calculate it like that?"

Des MacHale

Average, Numbers, Analysis

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With Browns' ticket prices what they are, you just know that all those dads who brought the entire family to sit in the 'dog pound' are secretly calculating how much blood they're going to have to sell next week to put groceries on the table.

Dennis Miller

Football, Dog, Dad

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It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.

Noel-Antoine Pluche

Mother, Mean, Science

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Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?

Saint John Chrysostom

Mean, Player, Hands

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