Inverse Relationship Quotes

If I ask for money, all I get is advice. But if I ask for advice, I end up getting money.

Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.

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.

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.

The more force used, the less effective it is.

The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.

The bigger the hat, the smaller the property.

In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Returns decrease as motion increases.

It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

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.

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.

We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.