Denominator Quotes
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden
People are the common denominator of progress. So… no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development…. But we are coming to realize… that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first. - John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. - James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.