Quotes About Ratio And Proportion

#1. Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.

Fulton J. Sheen

#2. No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.

Russell Peters

#3. But he was never one of them; their relationship was too unequal. He had loved them so he could know them, and he had known them so he could use them.

Orson Scott Card

#4. There will never be an end
To this droning of the surf.

Wallace Stevens

#5. The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its potential future evolution.

Robert Lawlor

#6. I've watched snails climb over
ten foot walls and
vanish.

Charles Bukowski

#7. Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Sloan Wilson

#8. A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.

Russell Simmons

#9. The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca Pacioli in his book 'De divina proportione', written in 1509.

Midhat Gazale

#10. I feel albino musicians could neutralise all the racial problems.

Sly Stone

#11. The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.

Richard Heath

#12. The Golden Number is a mathematical definition of a proportional function which all of nature obeys, whether it be a mollusk shell, the leaves of plants, the proportions of the animal body, the human skeleton, or the ages of growth in man.

R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz

#13. Schwaller de Lubicz identifies the Golden Mean as "the fundamental scission," or division of one into two, that creates three things - the original whole and two parts, one in golden proportion to the whole and the other in golden proportion to that.

Richard Heath

#14. The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

James Mansfield

#15. During elections for the 1776 convention to frame a constitution for Pennsylvania, a Privates Committee urged voters to oppose great and overgrown rich men ... they will be too apt to be framing distinctions in society.

Howard Zinn

#16. I don't like kissing on camera. It's bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole crew watching you, it's a little weird.

Christine Lakin

#17. That has to be what love is - seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you're a mess, too, maybe even worse.

David Levithan

#18. We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.

Christiana Figueres

#19. The problem with inner child is that if it keeps showing too often, people label you as childish.

Shon Mehta

#20. There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

Rene Descartes

#21. This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed to have both aesthetic and mystic significance. That the Egyptians knew of it and used it seems certain.

John Pile

#22. [The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

Albert Einstein