Equivalent Quotes

479 quotes by 417 authors

Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like… — Regis McKenna
I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance… — Carl Jung
What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. — Rian Hughes
Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity! — Napoleon Hill
Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or… — Umair Haque
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. — Michael Pollan
Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling… — Barbara Madsen
I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some… — Michael Maccoby
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external… — Nathaniel Branden
Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station. — Thomas Beecham
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next… — Robert Collier
If I had kids, my kids would hate me ... They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me;… — Oprah Winfrey
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with… — Roland Barthes
Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner. — Gregory Neri
If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of… — Harry Mulisch
The sunlight ... that strikes Earthâ€™s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that… — Christopher Flavin
Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing… — Christopher Flavin
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we… — James Hansen
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent. — Napoleon Hill

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