“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.”
“We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate”
Source: Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature
“Greatness of individuality is inversely proportional to the mass of the social aggregate.”
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
“Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.”
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 14 (p. 182, known as Benford's law of controversy)
Context: It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
“Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.”
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), p. 41
“The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.” – Chloe Traeger”
Source: Head Over Heels
“The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.”
Source: Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957), p. 24. : Popularly known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality).
