#calculated

Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#back #best #calculated #could #feel

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. ↗

— George S. Patton

#calculated #different #quite #rash #risks

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

#been #calculated #cavalry #consequence #force

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #because #calculated #carefully #controlled

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

#calculated #established #good #government #happiness

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#almost #any #average #average man #breed

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#also #calculated #mathematically #quality #stupid

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. ↗

— Erica Jong

#calculated #expresses #i #i am #i think

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. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#becomes #calculated #dark #fun #i

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress. ↗

— Carl Albert

#calculated #congress #did #early #elected