#calculation

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#childlike #flight #giants #great #great man

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#calculations #choose #driven #face #global

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

#arab #being #benefit #calculations #destroyed

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#calculation #everything #noble #product #reason

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#broke #calculation #child #cold #front

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art. ↗

— Max Bill

#any #art #artists #balance #based

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#because #calculations #distract #i #much

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

#before #beforehand #calculations #few #fought

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

#although #attention #brain #calculations #conscious

It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#any #anyone #begins #beliefs #calculations