Scale Quotes - page 5

It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale. (Richard Hofstadter)
I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale. View quote
Anne McCaffrey
I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big. View quote
Ricardo Semler
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale. View quote
C.K. Prahalad
Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings. View quote
Suze Orman
Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that. View quote
Tim O'Reilly
I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster. View quote
David Levithan
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt. View quote
Eleanor Catton
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time. View quote
Etgar Keret
The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured. View quote
Alfred Binet
It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this. (Lakshmi Mittal)
Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest. View quote
Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. View quote
Jamie Dimon
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. View quote
Barbara Jordan
In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale. View quote
Anil Kapoor
That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale. View quote
Phil Collen
No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. View quote
David Halberstam
You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't. View quote
Jenny Han
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it. View quote
Vinod Khosla
We get talent and scale from mergers. View quote
Angela Braly
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region. (Antony Hewish)
We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. View quote
Asa Gray
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. View quote
Brendan Gill
Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel. View quote
Busy Philipps