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If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear -- Jim Rohn
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. -- Edgar Allan Poe
If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio. -- Harvey Mackay
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. -- Aldous Huxley
The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it. -- Bob Allen
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. -- Margaret Atwood
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. -- Arthur C. Clarke
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
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
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
He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. -- Douglas Adams
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 happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects. -- Arthur Ganson
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel. -- Johannes Kepler
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
If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events. -- Jennifer Shahade
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio. -- Swami Vivekananda
As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions, but beware of organized, professional charities with high-salaried executives and a heavy ratio of expense. -- Conrad Hilton
Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels. -- Daniel Goleman
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
Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement of the constellations through the heavens, and the moss on oak trees, and they can't predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack. -- Peter Lynch
Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high? -- Walter Schloss
People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating. -- Lee Myung-bak
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies -- Marc Andreessen
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies. -- Marc Andreessen
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging. -- Ray Dalio
Facial recognition software is already quite accurate in measuring unchanging and unique ratios between facial features that identify you as you. It's like a fingerprint. -- Jan Chipchase
Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios. -- Aristotle
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
I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity. -- Robin Morgan
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood. -- Tom Araya
Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I donâ??t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system. -- Ben Bernanke
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference. -- Lewis H. Lapham
A balanced diet is not so much about protein/fat/carbohydrate ratios. The real ratios to consider, at least for the typical American or European, are energy consumption/expenditure, pleasure/actual need, food/everything else. -- Darrell Calkins

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