Inverse Quotes - Page 4

• Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

  Peter Thiel

  Average, People, Normal

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• The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.

  Peter Cundill

  Long, Earning, Corporate Bond

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• Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

  Raphael Soyer

  Art, Feelings, Perception

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• That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Squares, Views, Roots

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• ... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Sex, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Time, Space

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.57, Penguin

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• It's possible that Trump will have success by staging jobs theatre, rather than creating jobs. It's the inverse of what Obama did: saving an enormous amount of jobs without having the televised theatre to go along with it.

  Jonathan Chait

  Jobs, Creating, Theatre

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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