Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Perez

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.

Woody Johnson

With the season officially over and our new head coach in place, it's time to set the team on a new course. The Jets will not be defined by the challenges we faced in a single season, but how we overcome them: by embracing change and taking calculated risks.

Steve Fossett

I'm not confident of success because of what I'm trying to do ... We calculate that I will be able to complete the flight and have a success, but it will be very close.

Jen Kirkman

I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.

It was a deliberate calculated offence which put fear in the recipient and caused disruption to an RAF facility.

There's something we calculate called an alpha, and that's the stock's return that's independent, uncorrelated to the market. And the only way you really get a high alpha is for something to zig when the market zags.

Ehud Barak

hopeful that, in response to our readiness to take calculated risk, without violating our national interest, that the other side will be able to show some level of flexibility and openness.

His killing was so cold and so calculated that it is chilling in the extreme. This was a killing done without remorse.

You've got to be able to take a calculated risk. There are always going to be detractors.

The girls really stayed focus and didn't get too frustrated. They were real confident that it was going to come. We had a nice calm calculated pass (by Margaret Ho) and then a nice finish.

Romesh Gunesekera

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.

Somebody took a calculated effort into not just pushing something down (but) getting a saw and cutting it down.

There's definitely a thrill-seeking part of it. There's calculated risk. We're not throwing ourselves down the hill. Every once in a while I'll scare myself on a mountain bike. I've done things my parents shouldn't know about.

Duncan Hunter

At least the risks that we take are calculated risks, ... You see the complete picture and are able to walk down from there.

About 25 percent of the people who use a computer program to calculate their taxes print out the paper work and mail it in instead of filing electronically. It makes no sense but it happens a lot.

A lot of biotechnology companies are in the research and development stages, ... From a fundamental point of view, investors need to look at valuation and calculate the potential for success with any therapy.

It's not so much a calculated security equation as an icky feeling about doing things differently.

There was nothing calculated or premeditated about this crime. It's simply the uncontrollable passion of a young man taken a step too far.

Fernando Flores

Your problems don't come because you don't know how to calculate entropies or to design plates. They come because you don't know about people.

You're going to need all that information to determine cost to calculate your gain or loss at a later date.

This is an execution. This is a bloody, cold, calculated murder.

This is an outcome we have calculated and we found the most self evident,

Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk,

Alan Greenspan

At present, the Social Security trustees estimate that the unfunded liability over the indefinite future to be $10.4 trillion, ... The shortfall in Medicare is calculated at several multiples of the one in Social Security.

Corruption isn't a natural disaster. It is the cold, calculated theft of opportunity from the men, women and children who are least able to protect themselves.

Michael Wolff

Covering celebrities is inexpensive, and that's a profound thing when you try to calculate why (the media) cover it. The people who take your pictures aren't on your payroll. We've created this economic model which works for the celebrities and the media.

O. J. Simpson

We just don't have the numbers on what those sales taxes will be, ... I don't know how we could calculate that.

The school district is still going to get their same dollar amount. But the tax rate to taxpayers will be slightly higher than what we calculated originally.

It was a calculated risk to play them. And that cause the Newcastle need to rearrange the new group in the match.

It would have been nice to get the record, ... I was trying to calculate about four miles out what I should run. I guess it just wasn't the day.

The ripple effect could be so great and far reaching that it is difficult to calculate the full impact.

David Green

When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.

It was a slow tempo game. Everybody was in everybody's face. It was very calculated defensive play.