Scale Quotes - page 6

I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people. (Bat for Lashes)
Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world. View quote
Charles Francis Richter
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. View quote
Earl Browder
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
'Frozen' is a phenomenon on an entirely new Disney scale. View quote
Edward Kitsis
Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. View quote
Fred Wilson
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about. View quote
Henry Bessemer
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. View quote
Hugh Evans
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching. View quote
Harri Holkeri
People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up. View quote
Jodi Kantor
The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now. (John Katzman)
The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale. View quote
Jacky Ickx
We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change. View quote
Justin Rosenstein
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. View quote
Laurence Housman
Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale. View quote
Marian Burros
I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing. View quote
Mian Muhammad Mansha
It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity. View quote
Nicholas Lea
I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope style skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd. View quote
Nick Goepper
My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick. View quote
Pat Summerall
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule. View quote
Paul McEuen
The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America. (Richard Neal)
Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality. View quote
Roelof Botha
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before. View quote
Ron Silver
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do. View quote
Roy Harper
Go out there and see where the world needs your touch. That kind of meaning not only makes you feel more connected to your environment on a local scale, but also to yourself - whether you can operate from something beyond the definition that others might place on you. View quote
Sharon Lawrence