Ratios Quotes

• 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, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

  H. G. Wells

  Success, Hands, Done

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Rights of Man”, p.25, Penguin UK

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• If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear

  Jim Rohn

  Enough, Ifs

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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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• For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Negative

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• Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Might, Wealth

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• People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  People, Negative, Emotion

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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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• There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Research, Corporations, Investing

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• Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Distance, Dating, Erotic

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

  Harvey Mackay

  Life, Want, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Apr 11, 2012

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• The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Laughter, Positivity

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• Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

  George Will

  Mean, Canada, Twenties

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• Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

  Alan Cohen

  Appreciation, Math, Quality

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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 exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Common Sense, Brain

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.135, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  Stephen Root

  Office Space, Cake, People

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• In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Iraq, Soldier

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• The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.

  Raymond Rubicam

  Numbers, Used, Ads

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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 ratio. It does depend on the raw power.

  Lynn Hill

  Men, Climbing, Focus

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• The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Expression, Conception

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• 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 been led to expect.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Lucky, Has Beens

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Focus, Magazines, Newspapers

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Direct

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

  Georg Simmel

  Relationship, Two, Groups

  "The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies". American Journal of Sociology, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 462, January, 1906.

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• Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Increase, Decrease

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