Proportion Quotes
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
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I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.
Edward Hallowell -
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
Rollo May -
All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
Eugene Delacroix -
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
Ernst Engel
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Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.
Cennino Cennini -
Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
Bill Gates -
Fortunately, though she was hungry, she didn't mind missing a meal. Life was full of meals. They took up an enormous proportion of one's time.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body.
Ezra Taft Benson -
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.
Ernst Mayr -
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
Tim Ferriss
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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith.
Bob Proctor -
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton