Scales Quotes - Page 11

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.

Ricardo Semler

Home, Meals, Rooms

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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

Andre Maurois

Weight, Pairs, Reason

"The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it

Beth Comstock

Helping, Projects, Bigs

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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

Jonathan Coe

Book, Political, Ambitious

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When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for the Carnegies in 1916, to fund World War I, but now it's beginning to hit small business people, real estate holders, a lot of people well down the income scale who just spent a life building assets. Suddenly they get hit with a 40%, 50% tax rate.

Paul Gigot

Real, War, People

Estate Tax Debate, www.pbs.org. June 08, 2000.

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The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.

Morris Kline

Science, Reality, Order

Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.382, Oxford University Press

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Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Benjamin Cardozo

May, Argument, Expediency

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.424, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.

William James

Feelings, Intellectual, Mind

William James (1955). “The principles of psychology”

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Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series

Stuart Kauffman

Numbers, Eight, Pairs

Stuart Kauffman (1996). “At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity”, p.151, Oxford University Press

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Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.

Franz Bardon

Found, Humans, Large Scale

"Initiation Into Hermetics". Book by Franz Bardon, p. 31, 1956.

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Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

Evelyn Lauder

Wall, Eye, Reality

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Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feelings, Would Be, Poverty

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.98, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

Ambrose Bierce

Desire, Denial, Lasts

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

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I didn't want to lose the human scale.

Minoru Yamasaki

Want, Humans, Loses

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All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale.

Faisal I of Iraq

Taken, History, Immigration

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Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

John Vianney

Blessed, Fall, Humble

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Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement.

Andrew Hogue

Real, Return, Engagement

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Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.

Jessica Helfand

Eye, Light, Color

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Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity, Interesting, Decision

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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.

Wassily Kandinsky

Eye, Artist, Soul

Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale.

Les Dawson

Mother, Exercise, Law

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Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.

Og Mandino

Law, Goal, Details

Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.71, Bantam

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Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war.

Mel Duncan

War, Alternatives, May

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Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

Marshall McLuhan

Mean, Technology, Men

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Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.

David Starkey

Kings, Powerful, History

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