Ratio Quotes

117 quotes by 110 authors

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have… — Samuel Butler
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect. — John Jay Chapman
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio. — Harvey Mackay
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself — Henry Adams
Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio? — Robert A. Heinlein
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague… — Bernard Bolzano
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in… — Frederick Soddy
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there. — William Zinsser
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in… — Henry Parry Liddon
As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on… — Conrad Hilton
You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain. — Tom Baker
The ratio of people to cake is too big. — Stephen Root
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure… — Hyman Minsky
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand,… — H.G. Wells
If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more… — Swami Vivekananda
There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when… — Dar Williams

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