Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do."
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Proportion
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Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."
Stendhal
Novelist
"The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears."
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"A sense of humour is a sense of proportion."
William Blake
Poet, Painter
"Poetry fettered fetters the human race."
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"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."
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"In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases."
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"Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head."
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"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."
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"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity."
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"We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without."
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"The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion."
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"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us."
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"The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt."
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"I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read."
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"The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word."
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"The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship."
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"The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own."
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"The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions."
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"I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst."
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"Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another."
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"I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them."
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"Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public."
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"What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life."
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"A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion."
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