25 Calculations Quotes for You to Enjoy

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. Sun Tzu

Battle Before Few Temple General Wins Calculations Makes Loses His Beforehand Who Many Fought

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. Daniel Libeskind

Life Experience Sum Sum Total Complex Statistics Total About Something More Participation Calculations Obvious Than Just Interesting Series

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R. Tolkien

You Live Out Calculations Him Does Leave Your Near Dragon

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. Abu Bakar Bashir

Money Own Other Benefit Worry Way Destroyed Arab Neighbours About More Only Leaders Calculations Make Making Making Money Lebanon Get Being Oil Them Turn Next Right Gas Profits

I think of the brain as a computational device: It has a bunch of little components that perform calculations on some small aspect of the problem, and another part of the brain has to stitch it all together, like a tapestry or a quilt. Daniel Levitin

The ability to perform basic math calculations is certainly an integral part of playing fundamental poker. But in tournament poker, it's equally important to understand that survival often trumps mathematics in coin flip situations. Daniel Negreanu

Mathematics Survival Important Ability Part Tournament Poker Perform Calculations Equally Understand Integral Integral Part Math Often Situations Certainly Flip Fundamental Basic Playing Coin

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium. David R. Brower

Matters Own Different Kinds Side Worst Kinds Plutonium Simplify Calculations Safe Half-Life Just Different Many Radioactive Each Base Waste

My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies. Jackie Mason

Comedy Studies Come Calculations Any

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 Class Win Political Will Presidents More Drilling Price Putting Calculation Votes Calculations Always Than American Any Taught Oil American Government Elect Carbon Recall

I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations. John C. Reilly

Beautiful Me People Most Beautiful Become Stars Think Sold Says Some Someone Only Goods Like Calculations Know Most Idol Movie Which Movie Stars Bill Media

The essential point is that, although coordinates are a powerful, and sometimes essential, tool in many calculations, the fundamental laws of physics can be expressed without the aid of coordinates; and, indeed, their coordinate-free expressions are generally elegant and exceedingly powerful. Kip Thorne

I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Me Remember Space First Related Seeds Seems Head Calculations Make Got How Were Rocket Famous Planted

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war. Livy

War Our More Calculations Frequently Than Upset Nowhere

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness. Marilyn Ferguson

Our Admitted Only Through Absorb Attention Calculations Openness Although Brain Normal Effort Information Little Require Conscious Conscious Effort Consciousness Universes

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects. Martin Filler

Technology Man Architecture Made Building Before Our Dilemma Possible Architects Similarly More New Calculations Concentrating Tall New Forms End Than Modern Doomed Whether Place Forms Public Low Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Ever

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars. Martin Fleischmann

I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine. Nostradamus

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

Me People Feedback Will Think Sync Strides Kind Some About Between Stuff Calculating Calculations Most Comic Gotten Normal Normal People Person Length Notice Certain Noticing Your Floor Actually

You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misnamed. We're not so much trying to help people as we're trying to help ourselves. So let's be clear about this. So these are - in my view, they're cold calculations of national security and not aid programs. Richard Armitage

You People First National Think Aid Cold Programs Ourselves Security About Clear Calculations Know First Of All Real Trying National Security Irony Much View Help Help People Assistance

The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one. Rob Lowe

Work You People Will Think Bad Minute About Bad One Road Calculations Becoming Making Person Your Actor Based Start

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations. Sarah Churchwell

Failure Pressure Degree Increasingly Enter Purchased Degrees Perceive Students Fees Calculations Commodity Anyone Mean Who Universities

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. Yuan T. Lee

Become Scale Possible Between Calculations Because Quantum Accuracy Experimental Predictions Meaningful Theoretical Large Mechanical Comparisons Large-Scale Based Recent

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