Inverse Quotes

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

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Self, States, Reliance

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

  Nancy Leveson

  Software

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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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• There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

  Lena Headey

  Monsters, Looks, Genius

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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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• 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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• 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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• In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.

  Peter Medawar

  Chemicals, Genetics, Process

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Risk

  Alan Greenspan's speech at the Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. December 5, 1996.

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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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• People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Numbers, People, Groups

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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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• 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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• Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

  James Surowiecki

  Procrastination, Addiction, Drug

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

  Charles Lamb

  Acting, Bears, Excited

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1278, Delphi Classics

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