Pareto's Law Quotes

#1. A new concept had entered the modern consciousness. The idea of power not in a political sense, the ability to command people, but the ability to command nature: the power to alter and use it to create something new, and produce it in greater and larger quantities than ever before.

Arthur Herman

#2. Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs
result from 20% of the inputs.

Timothy Ferriss

#3. Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [ ... ] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[ ... ]

Vilfredo Pareto

#4. I had a sore throat for a long time and it scared me. I saw a lump in my throat and I was terrified. I wouldn't go to a doctor.

Anne Ramsey

#5. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense ... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.

Georgette Heyer

#6. I'm one that likes to collaborate.

Christina Aguilera

#7. It was the perfect moment to tell her. This is my last year. But I couldn't say it. Not yet. I wanted another minute, another hour, another night of pretending this wasn't the end.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. In Freud's theory, the wish-producing, fear-generating power of these body parts lies within them, not, with their strategic position within a historically specific, male-dominant, phallus-favoring, social organization of powers, bodies, and symbols.

Jonathan Ned Katz

#9. You give me dyspepsia, Avaric. You and the beans we had at lunch.

Gregory Maguire

#10. Nothing yet. I've been waiting."
"for what?"
she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.

Milan Kundera

#11. Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.

Stephen Covey

#12. Empirical laws [ ... ] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

Vilfredo Pareto

#13. But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

Robert Mueller