Scales Quotes - Page 27

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

Geneen Roth

Numbers, Soul, Defining Ourselves

Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet. Successful businesses serving the poor need more than investment capital. They also need infrastructure to enable effective distribution, strong regulatory systems, access to markets, technical assistance as they scale up, and more

Jacqueline Novogratz

Strong, Successful, Impact

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I am the dust in the sunlight,
I am the ball of the sun . . .
I am the mist of morning,
the breath of evening . . . .
I am the spark in the stone,
the gleam of gold in the metal . . . .
The rose and the nightingale
drunk with its fragrance.
I am the chain of being,
the circle of the spheres,
The scale of creation,
the rise and the fall.
I am what is and is not . . .
I am the soul in all.

Rumi

Morning, Fall, Dust

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Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

Randall Munroe

Brain, Fit, Just One

"xkcd (Connoisseur)". Webcomic by Randall Munroe, www.explainxkcd.com. (May 29, 2005 - ).

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Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.

Robert Kiyosaki

Real, Mean, Cash Flow

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I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in the future. But conveying that knowledge now is rather like a chimpanzee, becoming a human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then returning to one's chimp friends and trying to tell them what it was like knowing several different Romance languages, the calculus, and the immense scale of the universe.

Eben Alexander

Believe, Numbers, Knowing

"Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife". Book by Eben Alexander, October 23, 2012.

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Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions.

If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.

Seth Godin

Workout, Data, Decision

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Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the only organisms were single-celled microbes, such as algae, bacteria, and amoebae. The first animal with a head did not appear until October. The first human appears on December 31. We, like all the animals and plants that have ever lived, are recent crashers at the party of life on earth.

Neil Shubin

Party, Animal, June

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The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

N.D. Wilson

Rising, Truth Is, Difficulty

N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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NCL ... stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry.

Micky Arison

Vacation, Marketing, Stronger

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What does the world need that you can provide?” Express your social mission, whether it’s cause marketing, volunteering, culture, environmental initiatives, sustainable products, or corporate philanthropy Start before scale: make a commitment, take small steps and then scale when you’re ready Internalize and share your social mission Be unfailingly transparent – “If you’re not scared by what you’re saying, you’re not sharing enough

Jeffrey Hollender

Commitment, Volunteer, Marketing

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Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

Ariel Garten

Data, People, Imagine

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Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.

Ashok Gangadean

Powerful, Culture Religion, Profound

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On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.

Liam Payne

Flirting, Shy, Six

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An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into the indefinite future.

Robert Gilman

Support, Healthy, Development

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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Charles Ives

Music, Song, Rights

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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.

Ayn Rand

Government, People, Support

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.234, Penguin

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Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Essentials, Enforcement, Coercion

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Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.

Alpha Conde

Inspiring, Epidemics, Ebola

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From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status.

Purnima Mane

Husband, Needs, Demand

"Women Are Daring, Will You Join Them?" by Purnima Mane, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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you saw her fair, none else being by,
Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;
But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
Your lady's love against some other maid
That I will show you shining at this feast,
And she shall scant show well that now seems best.

William Shakespeare

Eye, Shining, Maids

William Shakespeare (1793). “King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet”, p.354

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The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.

Brad Alan Lewis

Race, Sixty Minutes, Perfect

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From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

Jules Verne

Spring, Future, Independent

Jules Verne (2014). “All Around The Moon”, p.111, Jazzybee Verlag

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But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

Paul Berg

Interesting, Perspective, Design

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In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.

Martin Sorrell

Agency, Media, Creative

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