Quotes About Proportion

God's merits are so transcendent that it is not surprising his faults should be in reasonable proportion.

Soon the grizzly was joined by a brown bear, a sun bear, and a beaver suffering from an identity crisis of magnificent proportion

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Los hombres más sanos, más hermosos y mejor proporcionados son quienes están de acuerdo con todo. En cuanto se padece un defecto se tiene una opinión propia.

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to personal feelings. His job is to maintain a ruthless sense of proportion while keeping the coldness of his calculation to himself.

Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code.

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don't look at its manifestation.

There was an alluring symmetry to him.

All was perfectly scaled to the human body and, in that, conducive to a sense of safety, of being at home in a known world.

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

those who do too much somewhere do too little elsewhere

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to. To sum him up, Nero believed in erudition, aesthetics, and risk taking—little else.

The larger the event, the larger the difference.

Outside of that it is the magnitude that counts.

One fundamental difference between a poll and other forms of sampling is that the sample statistic we care about will be not a mean (e.g., 187 pounds) but rather a percentage or proportion