Inverse Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Technology, Thinking, Saving

  "Good Work". Book by E.F. Schumacher, p. 25, 1985.

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• I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful of subjects like inverse probability that would turn Fisher in the briefest possible moment from extreme urbanity into a boiling cauldron of wrath, you got by with little worse than a thick head from the port which he, like the Cambridge mathematician J. E. Littlewood, loved to drink in the evening. And on the credit side you gained a cherished memory of English spoken in a Shakespearean style and delivered in the manner of a Spanish grandee.

  Fred Hoyle

  Sorry, Memories, Wrath

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• La fuerza para matar no es esencial para la autodefensa; uno debe tener la fuerza para morir. Cuando un hombre está completamente preparado para morir, ni siquiera deseará ofrecer violencia. De hecho, puedo afirmar como una proposición evidente que el deseo de matar es inversamente proporcional al deseo de morir. Y la historia está repleta de ejemplos de hombres que, al morir con el valor y la compasión en los labios, convirtieron los corazones de sus violentos oponentes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Corazón, Hombres, Compasión

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• The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

  Alain de Botton

  Country, May, Developing Countries

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• La cantidad de violaciones de los derechos humanos en un país es siempre una función inversa de la cantidad de quejas sobre violaciones de los derechos humanos que se escuchan desde allí. Cuanto mayor es el número de denuncias que se ventilan, mejor protegidos están los derechos humanos en ese país.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  País, Derechos, Números

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

  Thomas de Quincey

  Numbers, Promise, Ratios

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”, p.81, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• En las bodas americanas, la calidad de la comida es inversamente proporcional a la posición social de los novios.

  Calvin Trillin

  Quality, Social, Bride And Groom

  Calvin Trillin (1987). "Uncivil liberties", Penguin Group USA

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• Are the atoms of the dextroacid (tartaric) grouped in the spirals of a right-hand helix or situated at the angles of an irregular tetrahedron, or arranged in such or such particular unsymmetrical fashion? We are unable to reply to these questions. But there can be no reason for doubting that the grouping of the atoms has an unsymmetrical arrangement with a non-superimposable image. It is not less certain that the atoms of the laevo-acid realize precisely an unsymmetrical arrangement of the inverse of the above.

  Louis Pasteur

  Fashion, Hands, Doubt

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• There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

  Molly Ivins

  Rights, People, Doe

  Molly Ivins (2004). “Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known”, p.246, Random House

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• Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff had a very bad name. The reputation was that people always abused shared things, and in the physical world, something that is shared and abused becomes worthless. In the digital world, I think we have the inverse effect, where something that is shared can become more valuable than something that is closely held, as long as it is both shared and contributed to by everybody who is sharing in it.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Thinking, Names, Long

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• Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Doubt, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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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

  "Pregunte al autor en directo: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Chat en directo, www.newyorker.com. 1 de octubre de 2010.

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• I think three weaknesses have emerged for Hillary Clinton in early states.One is young voters. Another is political independents. He`s winning with independents who show up. But the other one - this is the inverse of what we saw in `08 - working-class white voters. In 2008, they stuck with her all the way.

  Steve Kornacki

  Winning, Thinking, Class

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Sex, Children, Real

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2014). “Under the Moons of Mars”, p.107, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

  Bill Gates

  Business, People, Needs

  "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Drag for me is costume, and what I'm trying to do is, sometimes I'll go around and wear makeup in the streets, turn up to the gig, take the makeup off, do the show, and then put the makeup back on. It's the inverse of drag. It's not about artifice. It's about me just expressing myself. So when I'm campaigning in London for politics, I campaign with makeup on and the nails. It's just what I have on, like any woman.

  Eddie Izzard

  Makeup, Trying, Nails

  "Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

  Patrick Caddell

  Thinking, Advice, Politician

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• There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

  Alan Moore

  Imaginación

  "Alan Moore: The Last Angry Man". Interview with Jennifer Vineyard, MTV, August 30, 2006.

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• There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Daughter, Moving, Years

  "Baby Lust". www.salon.com. April 11, 2005.

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• Es muy difícil para un biólogo evolutivo escribir sobre la extinción causada por la estupidez humana. Permítanme entonces lanzar un alegato poco convencional, a la inversa del argumento habitual. La extinción de Partula es injusta para Partula. Ese es el argumento convencional, y no cuestiono su primacía. Pero también necesitamos una ecología humanista, tanto por la razón práctica de que las personas siempre tocarán a las personas más de lo que lo hacen o pueden hacerlo los caracoles, como por la razón moral de que los seres humanos somos legítimamente la medida de todas las cuestiones éticas, ya que se trata de nuestros problemas, no de los de la naturaleza.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Issues, Ethical Questions

  "Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Unenchanted Evening", p. 39, 1993.

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• There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

  Norm MacDonald

  Art, I Like You, Kind

  Entrevista con Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. 12 de abril de 2011.

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• No había pensado en esta disminución regular de la gravedad, a saber, que es como el cuadrado inverso de la distancia; ésta es una propiedad nueva y muy notable de la gravedad.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Distance, Squares, Gravity

  Quoted in Popular Astronomy, Vol. 56 (1948), pp. 189 - 190, 1691.

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• Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Humorous, Two, Roots

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; 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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