Quotes About Proportion

To hear the young talk today you would think no one had had any excitement in the past, any heartaches, any problems, any bitter frustrations or heady fulfilment. The young of today were more than a shade tedious; pompous, self-centred, so sure that their concerns were the first important ones that had ever happened. They had no perspective. no sense of proportion. Perhaps it was necessary to be old to acquire a true sense of proportion. It was small consolation but it was something.

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.

The sun is the width of a human foot.

If 10% is good enough for God, 9% ought to be good enough for the federal government.

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

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.

My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older. Why's that? the girl asked. It's proportional, Leonard explained. When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.

Daisy knew about proportion from art class, but she knew about men from life.

You can't just build a huge chest and arms. You need to work out your body evenly. Otherwise, A, you'll look weird, and B, it's not the best for your body.

A hunter's meal is in proportion to his skill.

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.

Beauty is a sense of harmony.

There was more barley than beef in his stew.

The finite and the infinite are "incommensurable" (not related even by proper analogy); there is no proportion between them. Precision, or clarity, or exactness, is simply impossible here. All distinctions between

Plato considered the golden section proportion the most binding of all mathematical relations, making it the key to the physics of the cosmos.

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

I guess that's the danger with firsts—you lose all sense of proportion. So I made a fool of myself, even though I didn't realize it at the time. I was so devoted to him.

dyslexics often have a great sense of proportion. They make good sculptors.