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Quotes About Proportion

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.
~ Earl Nightingale
Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation.
~ Danielle LaPorte
Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service
~ Earl Nightingale
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
~ Douglas Adams
Our souls know harmony and proportion before we are born, so although I had never seen anything like it, my soul resonated at once to the beauty of the city. Immediately
~ Jo Walton
Sólo sufres en proporción al daño que tú mismo te haces, a título personal, o el que recibes de los demás concediéndoles el derecho de hacértelo.
~ Anne-Marie Garat
I used to wake up every single morning feeling terrible because my abs weren't working properly, and my back would hurt because it was overcompensating for them. So once I started training the body proportionally, it really showed me a new life.
~ Bryson DeChambeau
Your eyebrows should be proportional to your face. If they're too overwhelming, it doesn't work.
~ Anastasia Soare
Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
~ Euripides
it was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault. It was the mixture.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I think one thing today and another tomorrow. That is really all that's the matter with me, except a crazy defiance and a lack of proportion.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.
~ Pawel Pawlikowski
The proper eyebrows can balance wide cheekbones or make the length of the face appear more proportionate.
~ Anastasia Soare
If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.
~ Christian Louboutin
Real science is creative, as much so as painting, sculpture, or writing.Beauty, variously defined, is the criterion for art, and likewise a good theory has the elegance, proportion, and simplicity that we find beautiful. Just as the skilled artist omits the extraneous and directs our attention to a unifying concept, so the scientist strives to find a relatively simple order underlying the apparent chaos of perception.
~ Robert O. Becker
The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.
~ Lisa Scottoline
The beginning and end of all things is the lack of moderation! It started when men played fast and loose with their sense of proportion! With foreign exaggerations! When moderation's gone, power goes with it! It was inevitable! Is then everyone doomed? Why not? All of us? Definitely! Going to the dogs? No, running! A mad stampede!
~ Louis Ferdinand Céline
When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke. All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call civilization.
~ Rudyard Kipling
To reflect is to regain a little, lost sense of proportion
~ Salman Rushdie
I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.
~ Julius Erving
Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded to a person; in other words, the weak suffer more, where the trial is the same, than the strong. And, what are the elementary principles, we may ask, which compose human strength? Is it not - more than anything else - exercise, habit, experience?
~ Alexandre Dumas
Small things only seem smaller in large spaces.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The United States now imprisons more people16 for drug offenses than Western European nations imprison for all crimes combined. No human society has ever before imprisoned this high a proportion of its population.
~ Johann Hari
Whole life have balance. Everything be better. Understand?
~ Pat Morita