Quotes About Calculated

I'm very rational. I tend to let my head rule my heart.

You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.

If you analyze my career graph, you will see that I'm slow at choosing projects.

'The Green Lantern' seems a little calculated to me. It's like, 'We've got to get on this gay bandwagon and make this character gay.' Like anything else, there's earnest expressions in the culture and then there's kind of bandwagoning.

You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

I do like the thrill of risk-taking, but it's always carefully calculated. I have done many high risk undertakings, but I have always measured the stakes. Not feeding the fear nor the doubt. But I also believe that you need to fuel passion in whatever you do. This is what I am trying to teach my children today.

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

choosing his words very carefully, like someone slowly eating matza.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

But the framers were not visionaries. They knew that rules of government, however brilliantly calculated to cope with the imperfect nature of man, however carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of power, would be no match for men who were determined to disregard them.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.

They called it "a disgusting exhibition of calculated cruelty," as if boxing were supposed to be anything else

Secrets are the currency of intelligence work, and among professional spies a little calculated indiscretion raises the exchange rate.

People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, with the most refined sense of risk. They're hyper-conscious of safety. They're the least insane people I know.

I release my scoops strategically.

Entrepreneurs take measured risks, not hopeless gambles.

Ignorance of the universe's workings had created false gods in man's ancient past, and the understanding of them was calculated to destroy them.

From my perspective, as an entrepreneur, one is wired to take risks. You, of course, need to be smart and take calculated risks, and then do all you can to make it worth the risk.

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

It was a calculated ruling class campaign of terrorization.

The insult was calculated. Whether this guy was an amateur or a professional, he would perceive himself as the latter, and would now be invested in proving it to me. Interrogators call the technique ego down.

I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.