Quotes About Proportion

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.

Danger will put wit into anie man. Architas made a wooden doue to flie: by which proportion I see no reason that the veryest blocke in the world should despayre of anie thing.

Existence is sweet, and if we consent to its limitation in one sphere it is with the distinct understanding that it will have proportionally larger action in another sphere, for the abundant life is the flying goal toward which we move.

By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

If you stand far enough away from a picture, even a large one, the problem of the edges being at a different distance from you diminishes. Leonardo determined that a proper vantage point for a large picture should be ten to twenty times its width or height. "Stand back until your eye is at least twenty times as far off as the greatest height and width of your work

As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The

Newborns can be up to 20 percent of their mother's mass in the smaller cetacean species. This is extreme. Few, if any, large terrestrial mammals give birth to young that are more than 15 percent of their own weight.26 The minimum size for a newborn marine mammal seems to be about 0.6 meters long and five kilograms.

It is the universal nature of human Bildung to constitute itself as a universal intellectual being. Whoever abandons himself to his particularity is ungebildet ("unformed")—e.g., if someone gives way to blind anger without measure or sense of proportion. Hegel shows that basically such a man is lacking in the power of abstraction. He cannot turn his gaze from himself towards something universal, from which his own particular being is determined in measure and proportion.

Respect," he declared, "forms the basis of every negotiation with these powers. The respect which one power has for another, is in the exact proportion of the means which they respectively have of injuring each other with the least detriment to themselves.

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

Efficiency is a ratio, not an absolute.

el esfuerzo debe ser proporcional a lo que se pretende.

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Exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.

I feel like I'm extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that's a bit out of proportion. I guess that's why some people see me as strange.

I taught my boys that losing well was a gift, but that winning well was the stuff of authentic manhood. Losing, I told them, was good for your sense of proportion.

"This building has to be at least…. three times bigger than this!"

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.