Proportional Quotes

#1. The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

Steven Wright

#2. Specialisation encouraged innovation, because it encouraged the investment of time in a tool-making tool. That saved time, and prosperity is simply time saved, which is proportional to the division of labour.

Matt Ridley

#3. There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.

Cass Sunstein

#4. The volume of twaddle from critics is directly proportional to the distance you keep from them. There is always room to spread your wings when you fly solo.

J.N. Race

#5. Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.

Santosh Kalwar

#6. Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

Michael Korda

#7. Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

Robert Bringhurst

#8. Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

Liz Vassey

#9. Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus.

Stephen Colbert

#10. We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation.

Charles Kennedy

#11. In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

Paul Dickson

#12. I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.

Ben Carson

#13. Expressed in Planck units, the temperature T of a black hole is inversely proportional to its mass, m. This is a third law, Hawking's law: T = k/m. The constant k is very small in normal units. As a result, astrophysical black holes have temperatures of a very small fractionnof a degree.

Lee Smolin

#14. The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.

Henry Cloud

#15. The effectiveness of your persona is inversely proportional to what people know about you.

Brenna Yovanoff

#16. The amount of time you invest in a film is not directly proportional to its success.

Shahid Kapoor

#17. The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy.

Jairam Ramesh

#18. Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

William Alcott

#19. Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional - the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

Geoffrey Wood

#20. Only those who are able to adapt to changing scenarios will continue to survive and prosper. Success is directly proportional to the degree of positive adaptation to change.

Vishwas Chavan

#21. Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Ezra Pound

#22. The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.

Dave Barry

#23. Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind - the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

Thomas A. Edison

#24. In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.

Peter Singer

#25. Human ambitions are like Japanese carp; they grow proportional to the size of their environment. Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.

Keith Ferrazzi

#26. The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

Hal Roach

#27. Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of a centrifuge to separate U-235 from U-238 was proportional to its length and to the fourth power of the peripheral speed of its rotor. Karl

Gregory Benford

#28. Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

Stephen King

#29. I feel that India lacks a level of philanthropy that is proportional to the wealth that is here, particularly among the top 5,000 industrialists and entrepreneurs.

Romesh Wadhwani

#30. That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

William Hazlitt

#31. Prayer and imagination are directly proportional: the more you pray the bigger your imagination becomes because the Holy Spirit supersizes it with God-sized dreams.

Mark Batterson

#32. It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.

Harlan Coben

#33. The degree of insult is inversely proportional to the size of the entity causing it.

Shubha Vilas

#34. Cuteness and kindness are often inversely proportional in people.

Daria Snadowsky

#35. The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

Sandra Lerner

#36. The chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

#37. The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#38. The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

Lane Kirkland

#39. The prosperity of a person is directly proportional to the level of his giving.

Sunday Adelaja

#40. You are a stakeholder in the political process, and your influence will be proportional to your level of involvement in that process.

Mountaineers

#41. Your composite health is directly proportional to your composite wealth.

Anthony Pan

#42. The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

Oriana Fallaci

#43. Rewards are directly proportional to the suspect and his peers' status in society: $100,000 was offered in the Moxley case. It meant nothing to millionaires.

Mark Fuhrman

#44. It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

Alex Carey

#45. The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce.

Mark W. Boyer

#46. A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.

Awdhesh Singh

#47. Fear of harm ought to be proportional not merely to the gravity of the harm, but also to the probability of the event.

Anonymous

#48. My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

Beth Ditto

#49. Love is indirectly proportional to ego

Arya Vidhan

#50. If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.

George Gamow

#51. Strictly speaking, intensity in the weight training context refers to the amount of work required to achieve the activity and is proportional to the mass of the weights being lifted - that is, how heavy the weight is relative to how strong you are.

John Romaniello

#52. Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth to teaching about them. The one certainty is that our position in the Lord's kingdom will be inversely proportional to how we indulge ourselves in this lifetime.

Larry Burkett

#53. Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

Isaac Newton

#54. It is only the sentimentalist who imagines that the profundity of a person's response to tragedy is proportional to the length, volume, or shrillness of his lamentation.

Theodore Dalrymple

#55. The number of versions to a story is directly proportional to the number of people involved in it.

Abhishek Krishnan

#56. The idea that athleticism was suddenly inversely proportional to intellect was never a cause of bigotry, but rather a result of it.

David Epstein

#57. The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.

Greg Behrendt

#58. In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

Philip Caputo

#59. The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

Alfie Kohn

#60. This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote The Intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance.

David Foster Wallace

#61. If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.

Robert Emerson Coleman

#62. Bisexuality is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system.

Mark Steyn

#63. The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba.

Jon Miller

#64. The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

George Polya

#65. I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.

Benjamin Carson

#66. Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.

Geoffrey Wood

#67. The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last.

Israelmore Ayivor

#68. Attractions are proportional to destinies.

Charles Fourier

#69. Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed of the union of proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#70. Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.

Benjamin Carson

#71. You live your life proportional to your love for life.

Debasish Mridha

#72. Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

Archimedes

#73. Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.

Peter Welch

#74. The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

Steven Wright

#75. Surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.

John E. Sarno

#76. Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.

John Day

#77. Your compensation is directly proportional to how many lives you touch.

Bob Burg

#78. Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

#79. The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams are no longer possible.

Stanislaw Lem

#80. There's a superstition among falconers that a hawk's ability is inversely proportional to the ferocity of its name. Call a hawk Tiddles and it will be a formidable hunter; call it Spitfire or Slayer and it will probably refuse to fly at all.

Helen Macdonald

#81. Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky

#82. Why is it that every time you do something you hope no one will notice, you get found out? I once read that the probability of someone watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of the action.

Clare Kauter

#83. Friendship is direactly proportional to relationship, provided love is constant

Ernest Eddison

#84. The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.

Alexander Hamilton

#85. Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.

David Allen

#86. An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

Robert Townsend

#87. The memorability of a fact is inversely proportional to its usefulness.

- Jason's Third Law

Jason Dias

#88. The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake.

Alain De Botton

#89. The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence x 100 Total no. of employees in hierarchy Obviously, when MQ reaches 100, no useful work will be accomplished at all.

Laurence J. Peter

#90. Self belief is directly proportional to confidence i.e more the self belief more is the confidence and less of it will lessen the confidence. Success gets attracted to persons with high self belief.

Sandeep Kakkar

#91. Love and Loneliness inversely proportional to each other. Love increases then loneliness decreases from this world.

Anonymous

#92. The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

Murphy's Law

#93. The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.

George Saunders

#94. The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

Howard Tayler

#95. A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.

Pete Carril

#96. The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

Tacitus

#97. Your success is directly proportional to the quality of the relationships in your life.

Danielle LaPorte

#98. In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

James Clerk Maxwell

#99. Remember that the interest is paid on the face value of the bond, so if you can buy a 5 per cent bond at just 10 per cent of its face value you can earn a handsome yield of 50 per cent. In essence, you expect a return proportional to the risk you are prepared to take.

Niall Ferguson

#100. [Self] Perception is directly proportional to performance. Change a youth's perception, and you change their performance, their future... and their life.

Justin Young