Quotes About Calculated

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the next wearing calculated clothes and expensive smiles

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Everything I do is with a planned approach.

For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free.

I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the loreOf nicely calculated less or more.

And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart.

There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.

anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate.

Aunt Tasha once said that anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance—like running into Leo on the street. Sometimes through calculated decisions—like Margot's. Or mine, tonight, when I left Leo. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

Artemis took a chance on some calculated sarcasm. "Really, Spiro. Did you think I would attempt a break-in? Perhaps you thought I would fly in here with my fairy friends and magic your box away?" Spiro laughed. "You can bring all the fairy friends you like, Arty-boy. Short of a miracle that Cube is staying right where it is.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.