Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it. — Al-Ghazali
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. — Tom Landry
What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth. — Oprah Winfrey
It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct… — Hugh Mackay
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. — William Hazlitt
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided. — James Madison
Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it… — Thomas Jefferson
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are. — Henry James
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. — Aldous Huxley
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on… — Edward Weston
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To… — Ruth Bernhard
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at… — Alexey Brodovitch
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to… — John Maynard Keynes
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost… — Mark Twain
There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse… — Michael J. Fox
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. — Christina Rossetti
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each… — Herodotus
The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is… — Thomas Jefferson
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. — Jorge Luis Borges
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. — James Russell Lowell

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