Scales Quotes - Page 23

• If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.

  Anish Kapoor

  Talking, Skins, Sculpture

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• From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

  Richard Siken

  Landscape

  Richard Siken (2015). “War of the Foxes”, p.38, Copper Canyon Press

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• People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

  Jodi Kantor

  Children, Careers, Two

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• 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.

  Mian Muhammad Mansha

  Running, Textiles, Weaving

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• One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Characteristics, Bigs, Contracts

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• For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

  Karl Lehmann

  Would Be, Fundamentals, Matter

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• There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

  Gloria Allred

  Silly, Law, Regulation

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• If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

  Khalil Gibran

  Husband, Heart, Wife

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Confusion, Confusing, Use

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• LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Blue, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2446, Delphi Classics

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• Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That's a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Track, Understanding

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• A better lifetime comes from not some karmic scale but from inner knowledge. Inner knowledge makes you happy. In other words, it is not as if someone is checking!

  Frederick Lenz

  Lifetime, Rebirth, Make You Happy

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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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• Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Self, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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• For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

  Robert Browning

  Comfort, Might, Succeed

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 7

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• Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

  Saul Bellow

  Perspective, Anxiety, Suffering

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.85, Penguin

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• The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Simplicity, Humans

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.98, Vintage

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• It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

  Robert Motherwell

  Power, Different, Size

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• Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

  Stan Smith

  Men, Caves, Gestures

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• Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.

  Enrico Fermi

  Epic, People, Feelings

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• I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canva... Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow, before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Strong, Memories, Eye

  "Kandinsky" by Frank Whitford, Paul Hamlyn Ltd, London, 1967.

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• It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale.

  Jared Bernstein

  Mistake, Thinking, Growth

  "Minimum wage jumps to $5.15". www.cnn.com. September 1, 1997.

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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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• Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.

  Adolph Murie

  Thinking, Foresight, Greater

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• To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.

  George Eliot

  Revenge, Fall, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.294, George Eliot

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