Inverse Quotes

• There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Self, States, Reliance

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• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

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• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

  Aldous Huxley

  Moral Behavior, Numbers, Quality

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

  Dennis Prager

  Gratitude, Keys, Expectations

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• Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hope, Lying, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  Hans Eysenck

  Recovery, Rate, Psychotherapy

  Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

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• There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

  David Allen

  Mind, Done, Proportion

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• The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Airplane, Quality, Rooms

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• The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Military, Distance, Army

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• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Self, Essentials

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.93, A&C Black

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• History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Heart, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.93, A&C Black

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• Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Sea, Office

  Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934) p. 34

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• I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Moving, Games

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Mean, Law, Agendas

  Parkinson's Law ch. 3 (1957)

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• What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .

  Nancy Leveson

  Software

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• It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

  Amy Tan

  Want, Logic, Form

  Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.15, Penguin

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• There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.

  Michael J. Fox

  Success, Acceptance, Ideas

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• 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

  Brain, Example, Mouths

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• The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

  Ann Beattie

  Style, Admiration, Proportion

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• This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality... Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscience completely envelops our whole conscience and coincides in all points with it... when this solidarity exercises its force, our personality vanishes, as our definition permits us to say, for we are no longer ourselves, but the collective life.

  Emile Durkheim

  Exercise, Personality, Definitions

  "De la division du travail social (The Division of Labor in Society)". Book by Emile Durkheim (translation of George Simpson), 1893.

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• I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

  Jack Canfield

  Plot, Paranoid, Well Being

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• The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.

  Thomas Malthus

  Distance, Moon, Squares

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.111, eKitap Projesi

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• Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Unqualified, Judgment, Claims

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.190, Univ of California Press

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• To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Arrogance, Kind, Forgiven

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.31, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Lying, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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