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«The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.»
Author: Alexander Haig
(General)
| About:
Country,
Relationships
| Keywords:
ambiguities, ambiguity, calculated, message, Russians, The Warning, warning
«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.»
Author: Andre Malraux
(Historian, Novelist, Statesman)
| About:
Ability,
Action,
Courage,
Failure,
Ideas,
Risk-taking,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, act, bet, betting, bet on, calculated, calculating, difference, ideas, I Bet You, more often than not, risk, successful, you bet
«Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.»
«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.»
Author: Erica Jong
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
calculated, calculating, expresses, humorously, invented, in style, lustily, style, writing style
«Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.»
Author: John Goodwin
| Keywords:
artistic, calculated, calculating, decision, instinct, theater, theaters
«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.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
| About:
Failure,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, bet, bet on, calculated, calculating
«Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.»
«Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| About:
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
calculated, calculating, rash, risks
«In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
automatic, calculated, contrast, forgiving, irreversibility, natural action, natural process, predicted, reaction, retains, the Action, transgression
«Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
adopt, calculated, calculating, carry, coercive, execution, executions, for good measure, intervention, interventions, measures, taught
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