Ratios Quotes - Page 2

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

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

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

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

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating empty calories.

I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It is just ridiculous. But sometimes if you can hit it just right and get everything out of the way, something will resonate on multiple levels.

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

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

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

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

Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.

...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.