Top 94 Inverse Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
Don Meyer
#3. The Law of Triviality ... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#4. The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.
Thomas Malthus
#5. How Not to Talk to Your Kids, The inverse power of praise.
Mattison Grey
#6. The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.
Raymond Rubicam
#7. I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort of outrageous favoritism and its inverse.
Hamish Bowles
#8. A beverage of leisure is a serious business," Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. "There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.
Jeff Phillips
#9. Many people strive for success in order to find happiness when, in fact, the inverse is true. Strive for happiness and you shall find success.
Steve Maraboli
#10. Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.
Raphael Soyer
#11. Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
William Osler
#12. There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#13. At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
Calvin Trillin
#14. It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#15. Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital ... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
Jodi Picoult
#16. A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
Thomas De Quincey
#17. The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.
Idries Shah
#18. Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.
Peter Thiel
#19. One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
Alan Rickman
#20. Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
Charles Lamb
#21. Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.
Arnold Schoenberg
#22. A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can't be how the universe works."
"In the Order we call it 'inverse profundity.' We've observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
Lev Grossman
#23. Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley
#24. Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.
Jacob M. Appel
#25. [N]obody is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics can not relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they hold tight to the belief that the word [sic] has meaning and, when things go wrong for them, they consequently adopt the inverse attitude.
Muriel Barbery
#26. The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
Charles Edward Montague
#27. There is often an inverse correlation between genius and personal hygiene.
Helen Simonson
#28. There is an inverse correlation between the complexity of society and of word structure!
Guy Deutscher
#29. 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
#30. Remember, there's an inverse relationship between your head and your heart. If your head swells, your heart shrinks. Tucker,
Charles Martin
#31. The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
Ann Beattie
#32. I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#33. And maybe I can let go of the sting and resentment of the path not taken, because the path not taken isn't just the inverse of who I am. It's an infinitely branching system that represents all the permutations of my life...
Blake Crouch
#34. There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer's estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.
Annie Dillard
#35. It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
Amy Tan
#36. The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#37. inverse of the word live is evil.
Ben Okri
#38. The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable.. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education.
John Fowles
#40. The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#41. I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.
Christiaan Huygens
#42. So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres all the time. The pull isn't quite as great.
Natalie Dormer
#43. Your lips, an inverse chaos of stars.
Gwen Calvo
#45. The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley
#46. Proverbs for Paranoids, 2: The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.
Thomas Pynchon
#47. People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
Robyn Hitchcock
#48. What it really takes to find particles these days is money and lots of it. There is a curious inverse relationship in modern physics between the tininess of the thing being sought and the scale of the facilities required to do the searching.
Bill Bryson
#49. In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#50. 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
#51. And it is likely that Rudy had teammates for whom the inverse was true - they were a 5 on talent and just a 2 on time invested, which is clearly a waste of talent.
Tom Rath
#52. To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.
Lawrence Fagg
#54. What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do.
Nancy Leveson
#55. The danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
#56. I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.
David Weinberger
#57. The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
Lane Kirkland
#58. The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present; and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.
Sharon Salzberg
#59. For people that are degenerates, if you've spent so much time feeling a certain way, it's actually uncomfortable to feel like a winner. The familiarity of losing is, in an inverse way, comforting. At least you know where you stand.
Jason Gedrick
#60. I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
Bill Veeck
#61. Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
Bill Gates
#62. 'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
G. Willow Wilson
#63. Sales managers need to be good leaders. How do they do it? Good leaders effectively communicate their goals and objectives while they focus on doing their job ProActively, and let their people focus on their job. If this is true, then the inverse must be true.
William Miller
#64. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).
Bryan Q. Miller
#66. Bayes's theorem and that looks like this: People who understand Bayes's theorem can use it to work out complex problems involving probability distributions - or inverse probabilities, as they are sometimes called.
Bill Bryson
#67. His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.
Irvine Welsh
#68. 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
#69. It strikes me that the power or capability of a man in getting rich is in inverse proportion to his reflective powers and in direct proportion to his impudence.
Paul Sochaczewski
#70. The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.
Eric Hoffer
#71. An inverse operation multiplies to such a degree what concerns our welfare and divides by such a formidable figure what does not concern it, that the death of millions of unknown people hardly affects us more unpleasantly than a draught.
Marcel Proust
#72. I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.
Alan Moore
#73. I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.
Jack Canfield
#74. Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.
Charles Kennedy
#75. My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox
#76. 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
#77. He ... discovered that people's goodwill was frequently in inverse relationship to their position ...
Richard Flanagan
#78. Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.
Dennis Prager
#79. Do not regret the things you didn't do," Tamika said. "If you're going to regret something, it has to be the things you have done. We are not made up of the inverse of our experiences. If we were what we didn't do, I would be a ballerina.
Rose Christo
#80. The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.
Marcel Proust
#81. Love is an act of art ... It is this creative quality of love, that it seeks to reshape the world for its sake and to create happiness, which makes love radical and potentially seditious ... the inverse is also true: art is an act of love.
Rod Dubey
#82. You know, you are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.
Chris Boucher
#83. 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
#84. A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
Patrick Caddell
#85. But I have always found that there's an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.
John Scalzi
#86. There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.
David Allen
#87. [The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.
Sir Laurens Van Der Post
#88. Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the first could be detected, and where the catalyst had been vaporized by the sheer shock of the new.
Belinda Bauer
#89. There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
Hans Eysenck
#90. There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders.
Molly Harper
#91. The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.
Peter Cundill
#92. 'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It's also about how we forcefully exported that culture and then pretended to not know what we were doing.
Josh Fox
#93. One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to their
intellectual level.
Daniel Willey
#94. Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.
Don DeLillo
