- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Calculations Quotes
On the planning that precedes success or failure.
These calculations quotes open with a classic military observation: the general who wins makes many calculations before battle, while the losing general makes few. It's a natural pairing with Ability quotes on preparation and skill.
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- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get an answer that is infinite. This means you are wrong - but how do you deal with that? Is there something wrong with the theory, or something wrong with the way you are doing the calculation?
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I could calculate my way to a bigger audience, but I don't think I'm smart enough. Actually, I don't think anyone is smart enough. Most calculations along those lines fail.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Chemical Reactions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laboratory experiments, field observations and atmospheric modeling calculations have now established that chemical reactions occurring on PSC particles play a central role in polar ozone depletion.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our political system seems to be proving itself almost incapable of dealing with what's been put before it. The decisions it is making, or fluffing, are so vital and yet are inevitably so compromised by the endless political calculations of all involved.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.
- Half-Life
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- Nov 07, 2020