Calculated Quotations

Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It is a factor. I never make it an issue. I don't run the campaign wearing it on my sleeve, but I don't run away from it, either.

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.

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

Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.

Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers.

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.

For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

More companies are turning to Sager to manage key areas of their supply chain such as the shipment and procurement of inventory. By upgrading its MOVE solution, Sager has responded to the effects of this growing outsourcing trend. The company is taking calculated steps to deliver advanced services that leverage technology to satisfy growing customer requirements and differentiate itself in the marketplace.

Mr. Brewer has clearly calculated the timing of the dissemination of his campaign literature to deprive me of the opportunity to make a measured and meaningful response to the voters.

Search streams - the logs in which the contents of users' search requests are recorded - are a wealth of data about what people want and how they express their desires. The owner of such a search stream possesses a powerful asset, once user attributes may be calculated to determine how they relate to the target market.

Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money over a five-year period. You would divide it into five equal parts and pay taxes on each of those parts which significantly reduced your tax bill.

He was listening. I could see in his eyes he was recording everything. Mentally, he was so far ahead of the other guys his age. He's smart and calculated and mistakes are heavily punished here. Even the way he handles disappointment is right. He reminds me of Jay.

He's doing very well. That was a calculated risk ... not putting him on the roster, but he's starting to pitch well. He has a big fastball and one of the best breaking balls in the system. It wouldn't surprise me if we have a need, he could help us this year.

Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.

It is clear from this instance this is a calculated campaign strategy.

I think that some of the voting today was calculated to impact on the next nomination.

I think they were being financially cautious and I understand that, but I also think when you do social services you have a responsibility to take calculated risks, ... I don't think that you should walk away from grant money on the table.

I take chances (on the football field) but I think they're calculated chances. I know what I'm doing.

It is abominable to witness the cold and calculated destruction of cultural properties which were the heritage of the Afghan people, and, indeed, of the whole of humanity.

It is a calculated risk but it all comes back to the best players. It's awful hard to pass up a player that has so much potential and ability.

I was not thinking a podium was possible. I calculated I could maybe get fourth. To take six points after the problems is good.

When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.

The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike.

Merck calculated cardiovascular warnings would cost the company 50 percent of its profits through 2006.

Most definitions of a 100-year event were calculated before Ivan and Katrina. At this point, are the 100-year criteria good enough?

My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.

We haven't calculated all of the costs, but we will incur some additional expenses.

Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.

We continue to explore the possibilities of what can be done to remedy the unfairness of thousands of residents of Palm Beach County who believed they were voting for Al Gore, but had those votes calculated for Pat Buchanan, ... Our legal team has determined that the ballot in Palm Beach County was unlawful.

We are naturally pleased that once again the Thai authorities have entrusted us to deliver biometrics for the national ID cards. We have calculated that this second phase of the project is worth about SEK 20 million in revenue during a three-year period. The revenue include licenses for Precise Match-on-Card technology and licenses for fingerprint readers, but we will also receive revenue from maintenance services and sales of hardware.

We believed that the system we proposed would have maintained access to our markets in a fair manner. We calculated the proposed tariff in a neutral and transparent manner, based on a comprehensive legal and economic analysis. We will now carefully study the decision before deciding how to proceed.

There are a lot of people who will not make a claim even if the loss isn't their fault and is well over the deductible. What's disturbing is that you're paying a premium that is calculated to cover the risk that you actually use the policy.

We calculated it three different ways so nobody can complain. We did it by average price, by median price and then average price per square foot. The reason for price per square foot is if someone goes into a ZIP code and builds 800 or 1,000 condominiums where they traditionally have 2,300-square-foot single-family homes, we didn't want that number to be skewed.

We calculated that there's as much as 5 million gallons of that particular waste stream.

We calculated that we had about 49.25 percent of what was needed. This was allocated out to nursing homes, hospitals and private facilities. We received 5,432 doses of flu vaccine to redistribute.

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.

With the increasing number of millionaire households, comes an increasing confidence as over three-quarters of high-net worth households feel they will be financially prepared for retirement. These millionaire households understand that calculated risks are still a necessity within their portfolio design, however, over 50 percent have become much more conservative in their investment approach over the past year.

We're extremely excited to have Exit as our partner in promoting ImagePhone2. This will allow us to distribute the software package to over 200,000 households annually, calculated on only five sales per year by each of Exit's 20,000 agents.

With the season officially over and our new head coach in place, it's time to set the team on a new course. The Jets will not be defined by the challenges we faced in a single season, but how we overcome them: by embracing change and taking calculated risks.

You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something

Corruption isn't a natural disaster. It is the cold, calculated theft of opportunity from the men, women and children who are least able to protect themselves.

When I was reporting crime ... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies, or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart. That's my sense of how crime works, that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating. Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness. Davenport does represent order in this.

When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.

At present, the Social Security trustees estimate that the unfunded liability over the indefinite future to be $10.4 trillion, ... The shortfall in Medicare is calculated at several multiples of the one in Social Security.

I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this business a certain way. Everybody has a certain style and opportunities that are presented to them during your career. When it's over, I'll be judged by that. I care more about the people I work with.

The grand jury indictment being released today details a systematic and calculated plan to damage our country's national security, ... Regan is charged with attempts to sell our intelligence agency's most valuable secrets for the purpose of enriching himself.

We were down four points and I felt we needed a little bit of a lift energy-wise and sometimes it gets us going. It's a calculated gamble on my part and it worked to our advantage.

These demonstrators, particularly those who were bent on violence and destruction, made it difficult for us, ... It was a calculated strategy of major, active and threatening disturbances.

It was a calculated risk to play them. And that cause the Newcastle need to rearrange the new group in the match.

The school district is still going to get their same dollar amount. But the tax rate to taxpayers will be slightly higher than what we calculated originally.

These additional costs represent good value for money against the cost of enforced returns which the National Audit Office has calculated to cost 11,000 pounds (19,800 US dollars) each on average.

The recovery effort is one that's going to require three to five years at a minimum, and the agencies that are going to stay the course have to extend their funds in a way calculated to allow them to complete the work.

Somebody took a calculated effort into not just pushing something down (but) getting a saw and cutting it down.

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

Specifically, the AGO alleged that the interest rates charged by the company were not properly calculated or disclosed, and greatly exceeded the amount legally collectable under Commonwealth law.

The result is that about 50 percent of the biomass carbon is retained. By sequestering huge amounts of carbon, this technique constitutes a much longer and significant sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide than most other sequestration options, making it a powerful tool for long-term mitigation of climate change. In fact we have calculated that up to 12 percent of the carbon emissions produced by human activity could be offset annually if slash-and-burn were replaced by slash-and-char.

Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk,

There's nothing we've calculated from a business model that has been changed because of the Sony announcement.

This is part of the church hierarchy's calculated and frankly, evil campaign to scapegoat gay people for the decades of appalling sex abuse of children and young people that it alone created, nurtured, and covered up, ... abject, willful negligence of the hierarchy.

This is an outcome we have calculated and we found the most self evident,

This is an execution. This is a bloody, cold, calculated murder.

I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.

It was a deliberate calculated offence which put fear in the recipient and caused disruption to an RAF facility.

the false reports are, of course, calculated to do the agency severe harm.

It's very serious. This is a tactic, to blow up a shrine rather than going for the civilian population, which is calculated by whoever did it to foment much larger violence between the communities.

His killing was so cold and so calculated that it is chilling in the extreme. This was a killing done without remorse.

I hear this thing about how calculated business decisions have influenced my choice of pictures. But it's just not true.

Calculated according to the catalogue price, China has spent nearly 40 billion U.S. dollars on purchasing planes from the United States.

hopeful that, in response to our readiness to take calculated risk, without violating our national interest, that the other side will be able to show some level of flexibility and openness.

They made a calculated risk and they lost. That happens in a very difficult business like this.

INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.

A real game is 32 minutes, but he calculated it all out to where in actuality you only run for 26 minutes and 24 seconds, hence 26-24, so you sprint that long.

The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

A sales tax is a tax on the consumer and a rental tax is a tax on the business itself. The tax is calculated based on the rental fee charged. For example, if a business leases a piece of equipment for $100 a day, the rental tax owed for that lease is 4 percent or $4,

You've got to be able to take a calculated risk. There are always going to be detractors.

The girls really stayed focus and didn't get too frustrated. They were real confident that it was going to come. We had a nice calm calculated pass (by Margaret Ho) and then a nice finish.

The energy savings are typically 50 percent -- the products pay for themselves in two or three years. We've calculated that our products are currently saving (users) more than $1 billion a year.

a calculated campaign to blame gay men for the church's own criminal conduct in fostering and covering up decades of sex abuse.

It's not easy to plan but I think we calculated it well and the guys have confidence that their form is coming.

It's like a fragile foreign car. People break a window, but I keep the car running with chiropractors and massages. My whole style changed from drinking a couple of beers and going out to going to the hotel room and getting in the Jacuzzi. It's not as easy as it used to be. I have to be more careful. I have to plan things out in more detail. Everything's a real calculated risk now.

At least the risks that we take are calculated risks, ... You see the complete picture and are able to walk down from there.

It's not so much a calculated security equation as an icky feeling about doing things differently.

It really is the height of irresponsibility, and it appears to be a calculated effort to mislead people for personal monetary gain,

Everyone is looking at this like it is a frantic move. It's not a frantic move. It's a calculated move to get better, and to get better in the future, and to get better in '07. If you look at things in '07, things look a lot better.

As a navel-gazing exercise, I guess that?s very interesting, but as an editorial decision, I think it?s terribly irresponsible. It seems to be a rather calculated effort not to advance any discourse on the events of the day but merely to provoke.

There will be motions made in court to enlist its support for a thorough investigation. It was selective violence calculated to destroy the ability of the defense to present its defense,

There was nothing calculated or premeditated about this crime. It's simply the uncontrollable passion of a young man taken a step too far.

There's definitely a thrill-seeking part of it. There's calculated risk. We're not throwing ourselves down the hill. Every once in a while I'll scare myself on a mountain bike. I've done things my parents shouldn't know about.

It's a calculated risk. We are confident we'll be able to do that, but it's still a risk. Until you get it back, it's never in the bag.

It's a carefully calculated effort on the part of the people that manatees are in the way of.

It will be a good thing if they pull this off. It was a calculated move and they were worried about what they did in 2000 when they prematurely raised rates.

It was a slow tempo game. Everybody was in everybody's face. It was very calculated defensive play.

This was a premeditated, calculated assault at Heritage High School, ... He knew right from wrong. He knew what he was doing. He is not mentally ill.

It's been a quite a challenge, actually. We put a lot of thought and study into our ability to support the entire field. We made the announcement with a calculated decision that, yes, we could and so we've been following that plan.

This lawsuit is obviously calculated to damage the reputations of some of the finest people I know. That they would shop this story to the media and file suit on the morning of our first football game tells you what their true motives are. The charges leveled against me and my staff are completely false.

I built a career on risk-taking, so I support people who take risks, but calculated risks.