Quotes About Equation

And maybe that's the closest definition for the word we can get, a life equation: An absence of wanting equals happiness.

The truth is, our parents are but part of the equation that forms us?because the only thing more powerful than fate is free will.

Colonel Parsabel regarded Raspéguy as an equation, all the terms of which were false but the solution correct.

A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of producing proof require additional expenditures. No money, no proof - and that means no verification of statements and no truth. The games of scientific language become the games of the rich, in which whoever is the wealthiest has the best chance of being right. An equation between wealth, efficiency, and truth is thus established.

The fundamental conflict can only be resolved by altering the equation. Yes, it's cheating, but everyone's okay with it. Spiritual enlightenment gets redefined as something attainable by ego, and now the equation works to everyone's satisfaction. Ego gets to continue the noble quest and a thriving spiritual industry continues to thrive. Of course, no one gets the grail, but if you understand the fundamental conflict, you'll see that no one really wanted it anyway.

Basically, we convert the entire Web into a big equation, with several hundred million variables, which are the page ranks of all the Web pages, and billions of terms, which are the links. And we're able to solve that equation.

Morning plus coffee equals comfort, or some nonsensical equation.

You do the math, you expect the trouble.

IS WHERE POWER GOES": the most significant factor in any equation that adds up to political power, Lyndon Johnson had assured his allies, is the individual, not the office; for a man with a gift for acquiring power, whatever office he held would become powerful—because of what he would make out of it. Johnson

Kim Stanley Robinson

Memory was mind. And so, by a simple transitive equation, memory equaled life. So that with memory gone, life was gone.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

This woman was just as irritating to me as an irrational term that accidently creeps into your equation and can't be factored out.

bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction known as happiness?

We make God the steward of morality and build up expectations, expectations that sooner or later are bound to be shattered. If instead we strive to accept all sides of the equation, if we could get into a Möbius strip mentality in which both sides of the page, good and evil, are one and the same, then we start to get a real sense of that famous phrase from Adon Olam: "Ve-hu echad ve-ein sheini," God is one, there is no other.

I often half wonder why it is that life, or mine at least, seems less to change from day to day than to be solved like an equation.

The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

Change the game: 1. Adjust the arena. 2. Re-rig the rules. 3. Attack the plan. Change the story: 1. Describe the alternative. 2. Organize in narratives. 3. Make your fight a fable. Change the equation: 1. Act exponentially. 2. Act reciprocally. 3. Perform your power.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

We have a lot of respect for the fact that you can't make movies without money and that when money comes to the table, that money deserves to have a place in the process as much as anything else in the film-making equation.

We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in the equation, who can cause the precision munitions to go precisely where they should go, pays a huge dividend.