Ratio Quotes

117 quotes by 109 authors

If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a… — Jennifer Shahade
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio. — Ken Blanchard
Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence… — Daniel Goleman
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made. — Thomas de Quincey
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one… — Ken Burns
I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for… — James Agee
I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to… — Melissa Rosenberg
When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner… — Ken Livingstone
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America. — Spencer Abraham
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of… — W. W. Rouse Ball
For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater… — Aristotle
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces,… — Lawrence Hargrave
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between… — Pieter Zeeman
One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents.… — Janet Yellen
The question is not whether the good outweighs the bad. The question is whether or not the good excuses the bad. And, in my opinion,… — Derek R. Audette
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most… — Thomas Malthus
About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest… — Rick Carlisle
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson
Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to… — Elia Kazan
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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