Ratio Quotes
117 Ratio quotes by 109 unique authors
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge…
— Neil Armstrong
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Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to…
— B. J. Fogg
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Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
— Earl Nightingale
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A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear
— Jim Rohn
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Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the advantage, and strength-to-weight…
— Lynn Hill
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If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be…
— Howard Pyle
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To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
— Gustave Courbet
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I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in…
— Mark Kirk
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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
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For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
— Ken Blanchard
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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
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A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
— Thomas de Quincey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Ratio Quotes
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