Fraction Quotes

• Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Different
  • Crystal
  • Elementary

• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Way
  • Advice
  • Shopping

• It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • War
  • Prevent
  • Fraction

• I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Word
  • Aim
  • Fraction

• An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.

  

  William Bradford Shockley Jr.
  • Industry
  • Point
  • States

• Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• I asked my wife, 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rate me as a lover?' She said, 'You know I'm no good at fractions.'

  

  Jack Roy
  • Good
  • She
  • Wife

• The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Revelation
  • Gesture
  • Fraction

• A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.

  

  Vaclav Smil
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Capital

• Life ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Life
  • Fraction
  • Integer

• The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Learned
  • Application
  • Forgets

• I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Leader
  • Manager
  • Trenches

• Even if 'Bruises' had done a fraction of what it did, I would have thought that was class.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Thought
  • Class
  • Fraction

• There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Ways

• Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Achieved
  • Scratch
  • Fraction

• Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Produce
  • Fraction
  • God's Name

• We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • American
  • Proud
  • Original

• But to such a man as Schopenhauer,—one who considered five sixths of the population to be knaves or blockheads, and who had thought out a system for the remaining fraction,—to such a man as he, the question of esteem, or the lack thereof, was of small consequence. He cared nothing for the existence which he led in the minds of other people. To his own self he was true, to the calling of his destiny constant, and he felt that he could sit and snap his fingers at the world, knowing that Time, who is at least a gentleman, would bring him his due unasked.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Destiny
  • Consequence
  • Population

• Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Thinking
  • Woman
  • Wanting

• The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction of a moment there was no deed of violence wrought on earth, no hatred, no fire, no whirlwind, no pain, no fear. Existence rested against the heart of God, then sighed and journeyed again.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Violence
  • Voice