Top 201 Calculations Quotes & Sayings

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

I'm not one to make calculations, I'm spontaneous and I prefer it that way.

As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine.

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one.

I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.

Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.

Mr. Herschel... brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam," to which Herschel replied, "It is quite possible."

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

Short term political calculations of the past must give way to long-term investments for the future.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

It's true that films are made on mere calculations such as fight and item song. If the audience is lucky enough, there will be some story.

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning - concluded that they probably didn't stay behind for the tacos.

What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations

We're approaching being able to do a billion billion calculations per second, and that's the - that's the objective of our national labs. We're still not there. But with hundreds of millions of calculations per second.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

All that we can hope from these inspirations, which are the fruits of unconscious work, is to obtain points of departure for such calculations. As for the calculations themselves, they must be made in the second period of conscious work which follows the inspiration, and in which the results of the inspiration are verified and the consequences deduced.?

I never shot much when I was a kid, but on the spotting scope, understanding the ballistics and the calculations, I'm a ten.

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

There are no calculations in the records I make. I record as many songs as I can. Songs that I think are my best.

A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.

I never wanted to be an actress. Acting wasn't in my mind. It wasn't in my calculations.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.