Proportion Quotes

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.

We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

The more we enter our own gifts, the more we feel that sense of proportion. In that sense, I think our life lies in the fulfillment of those potentialities, whatever they may be.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what you think to do provided you do it!

Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!

Divide the target in proportion to the available resources

Whenever you take an action, Decide by both your brain and heart in equal proportions .Balance them as far as possible.

Billions of dreams die off every year. I believe yours will not be part of that proportion if only you are ready to shape them!

The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last.

The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.

It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.

It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content of hate mail.