Scales Quotes - Page 18

• The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Moving, Men

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• I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

  Richard Lewontin

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• One thing I love is to stop doing. When I just STOP and start looking, I enter a state that is much more dreamy, and find I look at things quite differently. It seems like a change in scale - both very close up, and simultaneously very distant.

  Amy Hardie

  Love Is, Looks, Things I Love

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Purple, Glasses

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.226, The Overlook Press

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• To most people in the UK, indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up US and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.

  Martin Rees

  War, Space, Europe

  "Small, cheap and a giant leap for Britain" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.

  Martin Rees

  Essence, Together, Atoms

  "We're the 'waste' from distant stars" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2008.

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• Work on nothing less than epic scale

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Epic

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• I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.

  Janet Echelman

  Art, Real, Drawing

  "Imagination Becomes Reality" by Janet Echelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

  Trinny Woodall

  Children, Self, Careers

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• A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

  Greg Lynn

  Looks, Woods, Construction

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• The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. Whats thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

  Hamish Bowles

  Uplifting, Country, Fashion

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• I'm sorry, I'm not very knowledgeable about the plastic model industry, so I can't answer that question. Unfortunately, I can't really make a statement on the plastic scale modeling kits, probably because I'd be eradicated from the industry if I made my true feelings known.

  Yoshiyuki Tomino

  Sorry, Feelings, Answers

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• 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.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Technology, Opportunity, Community

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• In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.

  Natalie

  Perfection, One Day At A Time, Progress

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• Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it.  They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

  Orison S. Marden

  Real, Simple, Thinking

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• There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Government, Quality, Earth

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• I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.

  Koren Zailckas

  Strong, Emotion, Argument

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• [D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Population, Ends

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• This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Knowledge, Ideas, Pairs

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the scientifically unsound notions of the young-Earth creationists and other anti-evolutionists ... They are so far off the scale that their scientific claims need not be taken seriously. Their distortions and misrepresentations of the scientific facts are not consistent with their self-righteous claims of acting to protect all that is good and moral.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Taken, Self, Scary

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• Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Important, Dimensions

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale, or a page, or whatever if it's just right. A scale is a relationship to the object and the space surrounding it. And that dialogue could be music, or it could be just noise. And that is why it is so important, the sense of scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Space, Important, Noise

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Numbers, Humanity

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.295, Ivan R. Dee

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• An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Personality, Aspect

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.124, Ivan R. Dee

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• Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1042, Delphi Classics

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