Calculating People Quotes

#1. Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

George Washington

#2. I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

Victoria Chang

#3. I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.

John M. Culkin

#4. Being mature means realizing life is filled with dark days,too.

V.C. Andrews

#5. Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

Conrad Wolfram

#6. Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.

Jesse

#7. People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

Wayne Gretzky

#8. It is easy to conform, but it takes great courage to stand up for peace.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#10. I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Kanye West

#11. After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

Cecil B. DeMille

#12. And he said that 47%-that's pretty high-47% of Americans are basically welfare bums who are mooching off the government. And then he said, 'My job is not to worry about those people.' You know, where do people get this stuff that Mitt Romney is a heartless, calculating c**ksucker?

Bill Maher

#13. Do either of you know clock patience? You have to add cards up to fifteen?

David Mitchell

#14. Be generous with your time and money - it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love - and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.

Scott Weiss

#15. There's a misconception that Lyft is just a better version of the taxi. You know, I think that's just scratching the surface of what we're doing.

Logan Green

#16. Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#17. Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#18. Commerce is the great civilizer.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#19. It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.

Eriq La Salle

#20. Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people ... As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Bertrand Russell

#21. Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?

Saint John Chrysostom

#22. Unfortunately, many people are not really listening to you, but are calculating a reply that outshines you.

Charles F. Glassman

#23. I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

Randall Munroe

#24. When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?

William Feather

#25. I didn't know then that this was just part of DC, that everyone was always looking ahead to the next step, peeking around to see what other people were doing, calculating the next move.

Jennifer Close