Top 176 Calculating Quotes & Sayings

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

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

When you're calculating variations - especially long ones - it really helps to visualize the board.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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

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.

Anyone who thinks stuntmen are crazy is dead wrong. These guys are calculating. They rig things, they think about different ways of doing it... they're not afraid.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

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

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

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.

I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say.

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.

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

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

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

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.

Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

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

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

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

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

The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to show up in the same areas: music, art, math, visual, spatial skills, and calendar calculating, although calendar calculating probably isn't quite as prominent in that group. They tend to show up quite quickly, or sort of explode on the scene and they then tend to have an obsessive sort of forceful quality about them in the same way as savant skills. So they tend to show up in the same ways.

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.

The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

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

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.

Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

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

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

It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.

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.

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

The minute you start calculating and trying to figure out what a huge audience is going to think, you're going to fail.

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

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

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

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.

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

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

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

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

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