Top 99 Calculated Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Calculated Quotes from famous people such as Michael Chandler, Deborah Tannen, Denise Morrison, Georgina Bloomberg, Idris Elba, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I built my name on fighting so hard – I’ll always do that – but I’m also trying to become more of a veteran, to be be calm and calculated and not always trying to bowl people over.
Michael Chandler
Maybe we’re kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
Deborah Tannen
We are exploring creative models to pursue innovation outside the confines of our normal process, taking calculated risks and learning from them.
Denise Morrison
If I couldn’t compete, I wouldn’t ride. I don’t ride for fun; I ride to prepare for the next competition, and everything that I do when I am in the saddle is always a calculated step in my path to the next win.
Georgina Bloomberg
If you go to Africa and you’re white, you’re probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don’t have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
Idris Elba
I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don’t be calculated about it and say, ‘Okay, I’m gonna tweet, and I’m gonna podcast, and I’m gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.’ I don’t think that should be the goal.
Scott Aukerman
It’s an honor to be the only woman in the room a lot of times, but I wish I weren’t the only woman in the room. I still have to think in a calculated way about how to speak and what to speak about.
Nancy Dubuc
I’m not an idiot. Everything is calculated that I do.
Guy Martin
In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don’t take risks, you’re dead in the water. Calculated risk-taking is essential for success.
Nancy Dubuc
My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.
Charles Tupper
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.
Andre Malraux
The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that’s not true.
Nicola Sturgeon
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
Theodor W. Adorno
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.
Ritesh Agarwal
The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.
Steven Pinker
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.
Harvey Gantt
The movie I made with my friends in my hometown based on a dream becomes a stepping stone to ‘Spider-Man.’ I wish I could say this was an amazing, calculated path but… It’s so weird.
Jon Watts
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Alexander Haig
I naturally make commercial music: it’s never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I’m a genuine pop music fan.
MNEK
Take calculated risks and limit your downside.
Theo Paphitis
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.
Pete Hamill
Republicans should be prepared to bolster their own grassroots efforts, keep promises made on the campaign trail and to fend off calculated, effective attacks from their progressive opponents.
Katie Pavlich
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.
Guy Laliberte
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that plastic! So I switched to bamboo toothbrushes years ago.
Dia Mirza
A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.
John Bright
In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.
Prodigy
When you’re making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
Michael Douglas
The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
James Payn
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage… between compromise – even calculated risk – and irresponsibility and capitulation.
Ehud Barak
People say I’m deceptively unassuming, but that’s the way I go through life. I’m not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it’s pretty much just me.
Louis Theroux
I'm pretty good with being calculated in what I do, whe

I’m pretty good with being calculated in what I do, when I’m going to make my mark on somebody.
Baron Corbin
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.
Daniel Boulud
Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn’t easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn’t just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color – they calculated only a 14 percent chance they’d find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
Samuel Alexander
When I approach my mixtapes I’m very calculated.
Ahmad Balshe
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.
Chris Benz
I have to stop and think about everything I do. I’m very calculated in a lot of ways.
Andrea Navedo
Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.
Sam Houston
Congressional opposition to immigration reform or emergency funds doesn’t stem from any philosophical objections or differences of principle. It stems from a calculated, petty, selfish rejection of anything Obama proposes.
Donna Brazile
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.
Zebulon Pike
I might act like it’s an accident but the opposite is true. I’m incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.
Eva Mendes
The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.
David Douglas
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.
Greg Lynn
All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.
Kenneth Fisher
That’s my nature: I’m going to be aggressive, but it has to be calculated.
Matt Nagy
What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.
David Green
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.
Romesh Gunesekera
Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, ‘It will never happen in my lifetime.’ If the prediction is something they deplore and fear, they say it with calculated bravado, often adding a smug, snorty hhrrummph.
Florence King
I don’t think it says anywhere in the Bible that tithing should be calculated on a before-tax basis.
Richard Thaler
In order to do anything worthwhile, one must take calculated risks.
Leroy Chiao
I don’t think you can have a calculated approach towards learning music.
Shankar Mahadevan
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
Orson Pratt
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.
Maxwell Maltz