Morris Gleitzman

Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their ideas and themes and problems and ambitions must be commensurately smaller and less important. I would venture that sometimes the opposite is true.

English Author

Woody Harrelson

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

American Actor

Tristan Harris

Our online news feeds aggregate all of the world's pain and cruelty, dragging our brains into a kind of learned helplessness. Technology that provides us with near-complete knowledge without a commensurate level of agency isn't humane.

American Activist

Sylvia Earle

It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

American Scientist

Hu Jintao

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

Chinese Statesman

Melissa Leong

Perceived value is paramount for most diners; a feeling of satisfaction that what you've paid for is commensurate with what you've received. That is, provided your expectations are rational.

Phyllida Lloyd

I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.

English Director

Boris Johnson

We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.

British Politician

Franz Kafka

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Novelist

Daniel Kahneman

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Israeli Psychologist

Use 'commensurate' to discuss fairness in terms of input and output, like effort and reward.

Equal Contribution

'Commensurate' implies a sensible balance between items being compared.

Balance

'Commensurate' is often used in professional settings to talk about salaries and responsibilities.

Professional Context

 but feel miserable all the time, you think, "Why do I feel like this? I must have depression." And you set out to find treatment for it. But if you have a perfectly awful life, and you feel miserable all the time, the way you feel is commensurate with your life, and it doesn't occur to you to think,

Depression, the secret...

 "Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."

Beware of nominalizations...

 the global output they and the producing countries rarely get to see a commensurate percentage of the colored gemstone value to try and change things from the ground up I found it a social enterprise called somani which is a Swahili word meaning value we