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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
Life
Quality
Commitment
Endeavor
Field
Direct
Excellence
Proportion
Person
Regardless
Chosen
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox
Happiness
Acceptance
Direct
Inverse
Proportion
Expectations
Grows
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
George Washington
Heart
Everyone
Distress
Give
Purse
Proportion
Feel
Hand
Afflictions
Your
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Elon Musk
You
Business
Cake
Proportion
Like
Baking
Trying
Create
Ingredients
Company
Right
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington
Government
Property
Protection
Citizen
Free
Owes
Down
Every
Defense
Our
System
Free Government
Only
Proportion
Primary
His
Personal
May
Laid
Who
Even
Services
Basis
Position
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Stendhal
Love
Fears
Our
Pleasures
Proportion
Always
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers
Truth
Hurts
Proportion
Remark
Generally
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale
Service
Will
Wish
Earn
Our
Exact
Proportion
Always
Idly
Rewards
Justly
Receive
It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
Abraham Lincoln
World
Others
Some
Proportion
Without
Labor
Happened
Fruits
Ages
Large
Enjoyed
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley
You
Achieve
Will
Direct
Results
Proportion
Effort
Apply
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.
Nicola Formichetti
Dark
Social Media
Dark Side
Difficult
Side
Seconds
Out
Proportion
Taken
Within
Context
Up
Very
Get
Blown
Anything
Social
Swept
Media
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
Death
Wealth
Fear
Increase
Increases
Exact
Proportion
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
Tom Hopkins
Direct
Proportion
Fail
Judged
Am
Times
Trying
Succeed
Keep
Number
Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.
Ulysses S. Grant
Property
Church
Free
Own
State
Church And State
Distinct
Spheres
Proper
Bear
Shall
Proportion
Within
Forever
Declare
Taxation
Separate
Each
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wisdom
Problem
First
Older
Rule
Complex
Ancient
Find
More
Proportion
Taking
Most
First Things
Get
Manageable
Often
Human
Process
Which
Things
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber
Passion
Responsibility
Three
Feeling
Politician
Sense
Say
Proportion
Qualities
Decisive
Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.
Edgar Ramirez
Strength
Sports
Three
Speed
About
Perfect
Proportion
Most
Boxing
Normally
Intense
Endurance
Either
Them
Really
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.
Henri Nouwen
Experience
Anxiety
Fear
Society
Increased
Despair
Our
Indeed
Ways
Giants
Paradox
Threatening
More
Proportion
Feel
Powerful
Powerless
Equal
Western
Western Society
New-Born
Showing
Even
Ever
Technological
Muscles
Babe
Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Life
Me
Law
My Life
Sense
Other
Gave
Classmates
Only
Proportion
Studies
Part
Provided
Trained
Each
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A. N. Wilson
Strength
School Days
Age
Complicated
School
Power
Doubt
Late
Our
Indeed
No Doubt
Proportion
Days
Exercise
Female
Brain
Brain Power
Very
Improves
Just
Middle
Middle Age
Bodily
Use
Large
Population
Now
Lives
Grows
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.
Alain Ducasse
You
Together
Key
Result
Matter
Important
Final
Proportion
Put
Also
Equilibrium
How
Them
Ingredients
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
Alberto Giacometti
Work
Art
Every
Sign
Only
Proportion
Obsession
Primordial
Qualities
Knows
Always
His
Subject
Artist
Form
Formal
Whether
Measure
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
Bill Veeck
Knowledge
Game
Inverse
Proportion
Price
Around
Years
Discovered
Ballpark
Moving
Seats
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia
Nature
Giving
Beauty
Our
Flux
Melting
Weapon
Objects
Proportion
Make
Limit
Against
Them
Symmetry
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
Carter G. Woodson
Down
Sphere
Negroes
Rising
Facing
Proportion
Merchants
Supply
Alternative
Going
Production
Manufacturers
Graves
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Wise
Experience
Men
Proportion
Capacity
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