Inversely Quotes

#1. Freedom isn't a static point. It's spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety.

M.L. Wulff

#2. A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#3. The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.

Gever Tulley

#4. 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

#5. In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.

Rudolf Clausius

#6. In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

Neil Armstrong

#7. The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

George Eliot

#8. I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

Gregory David Roberts

#9. The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

Aldous Huxley

#10. An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.

Pete Wilson

#11. Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.

Cassandra Duffy

#12. It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.

Michael Foley

#13. Happiness, as a rule, is inversely proportional to intellect.

Sunil Raina

#14. These relations show that the intensity of illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of light.

Charles Mark Turton

#15. A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.

Pete Carril

#16. The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

Howard Tayler

#17. Not all clever words are true ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#18. The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.

George Saunders

#19. Love and Loneliness inversely proportional to each other. Love increases then loneliness decreases from this world.

Anonymous

#20. The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence x 100 Total no. of employees in hierarchy Obviously, when MQ reaches 100, no useful work will be accomplished at all.

Laurence J. Peter

#21. The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

Tucker Max

#22. The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.

Robert Ringer

#23. The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

Karl Marx

#24. The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

Mark Jason Dominus

#25. Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

John Updike

#26. Fake titties are inversely proportioned to their owners level of self esteem. This being said, part of me loves them.

Dov Davidoff

#27. The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

Denis Waitley

#28. Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

John Pugsley

#29. No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

Mark Gibbs

#30. By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.

Isaac Newton

#31. Shutter speed and aperture are inversely related, so that a wide aperture requires a faster shutter speed under any given light conditions. The wide aperture lets in more light, and a faster shutter speed lets in less by reducing the time that the sensors are exposed.

Brian Black

#32. The memorability of a fact is inversely proportional to its usefulness.

- Jason's Third Law

Jason Dias

#33. The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Bertrand Russell

#34. Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Craig Bruce

#35. Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

Gregory Benford

#36. The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

Stephen Covey

#37. He's a man; the sum on his pay check is inversely proportional to his intellect.

Ronald Simonar

#38. The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

Frank Mankiewicz

#39. Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

Boris Sidis

#40. The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.

William Eckhardt

#41. A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.

Martin H. Fischer

#42. We knew that in general the quality of treatment we received in the training class varied inversely with the desirability of the job held by the speaker. In this there was a lesson: To get the best job, you had to weather the most abuse.

Michael Lewis

#43. It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

Alex Carey

#44. The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.

Desmond Morris

#45. The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

Lane Kirkland

#46. The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#47. The chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

#48. The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

Sandra Lerner

#49. My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

Glenn Gould

#50. Cuteness and kindness are often inversely proportional in people.

Daria Snadowsky

#51. Indeed, it may be suggested that 'traditions' and pragmatic conventions or routines are inversely related.

Eric Hobsbawm

#52. The degree of insult is inversely proportional to the size of the entity causing it.

Shubha Vilas

#53. Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth to teaching about them. The one certainty is that our position in the Lord's kingdom will be inversely proportional to how we indulge ourselves in this lifetime.

Larry Burkett

#54. The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy.

Jairam Ramesh

#55. One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces ... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#56. The effectiveness of your persona is inversely proportional to what people know about you.

Brenna Yovanoff

#57. Expressed in Planck units, the temperature T of a black hole is inversely proportional to its mass, m. This is a third law, Hawking's law: T = k/m. The constant k is very small in normal units. As a result, astrophysical black holes have temperatures of a very small fractionnof a degree.

Lee Smolin

#58. In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

Paul Dickson

#59. But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#60. Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus.

Stephen Colbert

#61. Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

Liz Vassey

#62. The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Fred Wilson

#63. if they believe that their fortunes are inversely correlated with the foreigners' fortunes, that the foreigners have to lose for them to win - then their theology will probably be less inclusive. Let's

Robert Wright

#64. The quality of a restaurant's food is inversely proportioned to the amount of fun its staff seems to be having.

Dov Davidoff

#65. Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky

#66. There's a superstition among falconers that a hawk's ability is inversely proportional to the ferocity of its name. Call a hawk Tiddles and it will be a formidable hunter; call it Spitfire or Slayer and it will probably refuse to fly at all.

Helen Macdonald

#67. One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue.

Saul Alinsky

#68. Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#69. The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams are no longer possible.

Stanislaw Lem

#70. I wonder briefly if I could somehow broker a deal with God whereby if I put both my arms around Chris, his suffering would be transferred to me via skin-to-skin osmosis at a rate inversely proportionate to how much I love him.

Laura Buzo

#71. Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.

John Day

#72. Let's take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321. One, expressed nine times, multiplied by itself, produces all subsequent numbers progressively and then inversely. Zero is not a number.

Michael Ben Zehabe

#73. The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

Edmund A. Opitz

#74. I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.

Nicole Krauss

#75. It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.

G.H. Hardy

#76. Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.

Geoffrey Wood

#77. The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

George Polya

#78. The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba.

Jon Miller

#79. This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote The Intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance.

David Foster Wallace

#80. The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

Alfie Kohn

#81. The idea that athleticism was suddenly inversely proportional to intellect was never a cause of bigotry, but rather a result of it.

David Epstein

#82. Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

Isaac Newton