Quotes About Proportion

Counterbalancing done well gives the illusion of balance.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

As a guide, I would suggest that Specific Teaching typically makes up 80–90% of teaching and learning time; Non-specific Teaching should make up 10–20%.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

Observe due measure, for timing is in all things the most important factor.

Your bikini should compliment your dress, and they should work together to frame your body. It's just like layering a T-shirt under a blazer. Just keep your proportions in mind.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

More generally, when a nonchaotic system is disturbed slightly, the disturbance either doesn't grow at all or else grows very mildly, increasing in proportion to how much time has passed. One says that the errors grow no faster than linearly in time.

I want to stress that—only sixty digits. That's the most we would ever need to express one distance in terms of another.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

Anger, if not allowed to fester and grow out of proportion, is healthy, like a smoke alarm that if heeded can prevent all sorts of damage.

If women have an income, they will invest a higher proportion of that income in their children than men do. So you do get those societal returns very quickly.

I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some things they may have the advantage, but we will be found to have equally great in others.

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

The Creator never singles out an individual for an important service to mankind without first testing him, through struggle, in proportion to the nature of the service he is to render.

I am the guilty gift-giver, which means that I am a gift-giver who lacks all sense of proportion.

24 percent of something is larger than 73 percent of nothing.

Admire a big horse. Saddle a small one.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.