Top 223 Calculation Quotes & Sayings

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

It was boxing, but I also feel it was my drive and ambition that kept me away from the stupidness, and my calculation.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Calculation never made a hero.

The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

When I have something to work against, it liberates my imagination. I believe very much in authentic inspiration. I'm not about calculation.

Chess is 99 percent calculation.

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.? You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold?, comes at long last over everyone.

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

People can make any political calculation they want. I make decisions what I think is in the best interest.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important and the less important. It is an ordering according to rank, an act of grading (Cuhel), and not an act of measuring. It was a mistake to search for a measure of the value of goods. In the last analysis, economic calculation does not rest on the measurement of values, but on their arrangement in an order of rank.

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that's backward.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

If I were to run for Senate, my calculation is, what kind of an impact am I going to have were I to win?

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

Losses from partnerships and limited-liability companies, the entities through which the Trumps report much of their income, do not have to be added back as part of the A.M.T. calculation.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.