Quotes & Sayings About Inversely Proportional

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

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

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand. — Craig Bruce

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

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional. — Liz Vassey

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

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. — Neil Armstrong

Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue. — John Day

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

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore — Alex Carey

Cuteness and kindness are often inversely proportional in people. — Daria Snadowsky

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

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

This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success. — Slavoj Zizek

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group. — Lane Kirkland

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

The degree of insult is inversely proportional to the size of the entity causing it. — Shubha Vilas

The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it. — Howard Tayler

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

- Jason's Third Law — Jason Dias

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

The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba. — Jon Miller

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

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability. — John Updike

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

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

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

The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated. — Robert Ringer

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available — Gregory Benford

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

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

The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it. — Denis Waitley

Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth ... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility. — Alister E. McGrath

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

The effectiveness of your persona is inversely proportional to what people know about you. — Brenna Yovanoff

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

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision. — Paul Dickson

Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation. — John Pugsley

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

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

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power. — Stephen Covey

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

The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope. — Mark Jason Dominus

Happiness, as a rule, is inversely proportional to intellect. — Sunil Raina

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

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

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house. — Gregory David Roberts

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

He's a man; the sum on his pay check is inversely proportional to his intellect. — Ronald Simonar

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

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. — Leon Trotsky

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

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

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

Quantitatively speaking, 'conversation' is inversely proportional to economic standing. If you are traveling in a bus, your fellow passengers will get into a conversation with you very quickly and without any reservation. If you are traveling by first class on a train, people will be more reserved. If you are traveling by air, then the likely hood of getting into a conversation is quite small. If you are in first class on an international flight then you may travel 24 hours without exchanging a single word with the person sitting next to you. — Sudha Murty

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