Ratio Quotes

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

Human, Moral, Quality

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

Country, Office, Dignity

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

Between, Lucky, Expect

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, True, Done

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

Two, Between, Involved

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Music, Find, Same

I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
Yuri Milner

Life, Age, Making

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, Between, Intellect

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret Atwood

Writing, Reason, Process

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thomas Malthus

Goes, Population, Increases

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
Dave Eggers

Trying, Goal, Attention

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
Rob Sheffield

Sometimes, Her, Miserable

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

Positive, Negative, Four

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet

Beauty, Time, Power

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.
Lev Grossman

Mean, Seems, Majority

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 pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.
Melissa Rosenberg

Success, Work, Great

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.
Daniel Tammet

School, Through, Between

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thomas Malthus

Population, Increases, Unchecked

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 hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.
Ken Burns

Bad, Mean, Working

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

Beauty, Power, Artist

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
Bonnie Raitt

Music, Great, Mind

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.
Sebastian Junger

Enemy, Fighting, American

It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian.
James Iha

Time, Mean, Often

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.
Frances O'Grady

Crisis, Before, Balance

The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.
Elliott Erwitt

Good, Successful, Long

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 Odom

War, Soldier, Iraq

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 and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.
Ken Livingstone

Time, Control, Find

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

America, Students, Five

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
Henry Charles Carey

Freedom, Country, Others

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 the mass and the charge of the electron.
Pieter Zeeman

Between, Mass, Lines

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