There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done! — David Allen Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. — John Carmack Copy Share Image
The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very… — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
I do make some drawings for wall pieces. I do work out some ideas for large-scale wall pieces where I have to… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples,… — Luca Pacioli Copy Share Image
It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group.… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats,… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race. — Sally Miller Gearhart Copy Share Image
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. — Paul Bert Copy Share Image
Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion. — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time. — Mike Dunlap Copy Share Image
When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse — George Crumb Copy Share Image
Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Copy Share Image
Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
