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I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I -- Ian Curtis
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.] -- Tacitus
Work/Loaf Ratio"...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the "W/LR" save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos. -- Gary Reilly
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. -- Thomas Malthus
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. -- Thomas Malthus
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. -- Aldous Huxley
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. -- Gustave Courbet
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. -- Rob Sheffield
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. -- Margaret Atwood
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. -- Aldous Huxley
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio. -- Ken Blanchard
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. -- Georg Simmel
Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years. -- Benjamin Graham
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
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
I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers. -- Humphry Davy
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. -- Edgar Allan Poe
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
Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something. -- Peter Diamandis
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
One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks. -- Janet Yellen
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
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
The wealth-income ratio in the United States has always been lower than in Europe. The main reason in the early years was that land values bulked less in the wide open spaces of North America. There was, of course, much more land, but it was very cheap. -- Robert Solow
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
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
I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot 'Hot Rod' in. Like, that's what we talk about. -- Bill Hader
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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
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. -- Thomas Malthus
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes. -- Thomas Carlyle
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases. -- Thomas Carlyle
The ratio of people to cake is too big. -- Stephen Root
If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear -- Jim Rohn
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance. -- George William Curtis
Marijuana, for example, won't help one determine the correct aspect ratio... -- David Mamet
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service. -- Earl Nightingale
...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. -- Jon Krakauer
Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint. -- Alan Cohen
Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio? -- Robert A. Heinlein
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio. -- Harvey Mackay
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. -- Alberto Moravia
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made. -- Thomas de Quincey
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. -- Emily Dickinson
Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1. -- Trevor Hoffman
The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it. -- Bob Allen
The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used. -- Raymond Rubicam
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there. -- William Zinsser
Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system. -- Paul Doughty Bartlett
Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries. -- Martin L. Gross
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings. -- Benjamin Graham
I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections. -- Noel Clarke
A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance. -- Michael LeBoeuf
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times. -- Tim Fargo
Things are always terriblefor some people. The questionis the ratio of the palpable hurtto the general sessionof life in an era. -- Maureen N. McLane
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time. -- Garry Trudeau
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself -- Henry Adams
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. -- William Blake
You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain. -- Tom Baker
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state. -- Thomas Malthus
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
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. -- Jeff Baena
By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare. -- Jonah Lehrer
To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize. -- Barry Ritholtz
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves. -- Ernest Hemingway
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
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
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
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
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. -- Bruce Ames
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. -- Robert Hass
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. -- William Safire
Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Nat Friedman
Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center. -- Isaac Newton
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not. -- Thomas J. Sargent
Yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah, carburetor, gear ratio, compression, yah-da-yah, piston, plugs, intake, yah-da-yah, on and on and on. That is the romantic face of the classic mode. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior. -- B. J. Fogg
In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one. -- Howe Gelb
Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care. -- Frank-Walter Steinmeier
The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us. -- Earl Nightingale
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half. -- Eric Hoffer
It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is. -- Richard Parks Bland
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance. -- Henry Parry Liddon
I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors. -- Charles Grodin
If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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
Film is better than digital in every way. It has better contrast ratio, better blacks, and better color reproduction. It's a more organic image, which is more the way your eyes see. -- James Gray
If you want the benefit of having an ox, you're going to have to endure the poo that comes with it. The goal is to have a positive poo to ox ratio. -- Mark Gungor
In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge. -- Tim Harford
Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maximise calorie delivery is to increase that ratio of processed food to total food. -- Anthony Pratt
At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality. -- John L. Casti
Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce. -- John M. Gottman
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
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. -- Thomas Malthus
The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is. -- Richard P. Feynman
COMPENSATION. For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. For each beloved hour Sharp pittances of years, Bitter contested farthings And coffers heaped with tears. -- Emily Dickinson
COMPENSATION. For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. For each beloved hour Sharp pittances of years, Bitter contested farthings And coffers heaped with tears." -- Emily Dickinson
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
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

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