Norman Schwarzkopf

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

American General

Giraldus Cambrensis

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

Welsh Clergyman

Gautam Gambhir

Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

Indian Athlete

Abraham Lincoln

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.

American President

Vince Lombardi

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

American Coach

Arthur Conan Doyle

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

British Writer

Henry David Thoreau

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

American Author

George Bernard Shaw

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Irish Playwright

Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

David Hume

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Scottish Philosopher

Shows important relationships in data or statistics, often in studies or surveys.

Statistical Significance

Used to compare sizes, indicating one thing is larger or smaller than another.

Comparative Sizes

Emphasizes fairness when distributing shares or amounts among people or groups.

Equitable Distribution

Sometimes used to express disappointment when output doesn't match effort.

Expectation vs. Reality

Refers to the numeric part of something when dividing it into sections.

Quantitative Share

Useful for highlighting the majority or minority elements within a group.

Defining Majorities

Speaks to the pleasing arrangement of elements within design and art.

Aesthetic Appeal

Highlights balance and symmetry in visual elements.

Visual Harmony

In cooking or manufacturing, amounts are adjusted for consistency.

Customizing Quantities

Ensures resources are distributed based on need or specific criteria.

Resource Allocation

 depending on how it's grouped. This often occurs when aggregated data hides a conditional variable, sometimes known as a lurking variable, which is a hidden additional factor that significantly influences results. Here, the hidden factor is the relative proportion of patients who arrive in good or poor health.

How statistics can be...

 making players partners in the league, entitled to shares of ticket revenues and television contracts. Suddenly, anybody who could be an NBA player wanted to be, and teams started scouring the globe for the bodies that could help them win championships. Almost overnight, the proportion of men in the NBA

Are athletes really...

 showing the two possible phenotypes in a three-to-one proportion. But even peas have a lot of characteristics. For example, besides being yellow or green, peas may be round or wrinkled. So we could have all these possible round yellow peas, round green peas, wrinkled yellow peas, wrinkled green peas.

How Mendel's pea plants...

 and two passive parts, listening and reading. While a balanced bilingual has near equal abilities across the board in two languages, most bilinguals around the world know and use their languages in varying proportions. And depending on their situation and how they acquired each language,

The benefits of a...

 Some cultures believe blood type to be associated with personality, though this is not supported by science. And though the proportions of different blood types vary between human populations, scientists aren't sure why they evolved; perhaps as protection against blood born diseases,

Why do blood types...

 generation working was normal a lot of women worked hundred percent of the time they raise children and they have also did one hundred percent of the housework blows my mind but that's how it was thirty years down the line when I went to university a great proportion of my

Defying stereotypes: the...

 Although Roman culture was never fully lost, its influence declined and new art styles arose focused on religious symbolism and allegory rather than proportion and realism. This shift extended to architecture

A brief history of goths...

 aerial hunter that we think of this phase of the dragonflies lifecycle forms only a small proportion of their life often less than a month in a total lifespan that may be two to three years

The Secret World of...

 faster than the human brain and a far bigger proportion of the neurons in Callie's brain are dedicated purely to the detection of movement she almost can't help but pants

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 And a far bigger proportion of the neurons in Kali's brain are dedicated purely to the detection of movement. She almost can't help but pounce.

Proportion