Calculation Quotes

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce

Business, Future, Exercise

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

Winning, Done, Play

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Through, Often, Weakness

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

Beautiful, Everything, Reason

Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Sense, Common

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

Life, Experience, Sense

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

Beautiful, Reason, Result

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
Martin Heidegger

Time, Two, Sense

Calculation never made a hero.
John Henry Newman

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
Jeff Goodell

Government, Political, Win

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
Todd Gitlin

Fun, Emotional, America

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.
Sheryl Crow

Thought, Goes, However

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God, Tomorrow, Accept

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.
Nina Bawden

Life, Legal, Child

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.
Seth Lloyd

Energy, Matter, Memory

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.
Joseph Lancaster

Children, Parents, Among

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

Naked, Likes, Advantages

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
William Kirby

War, Act, Military

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
Yukihiro Matsumoto

Money, Government, Tax

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
Max Bill

Work, Nature, Art

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
Miriam Beard

Results, Beyond

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

Society, Human, Rigor

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