Scales quotes
168 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time."
"When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value."
"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"
"What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats."
"Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are."
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"I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension."
"Work on nothing less than epic scale"
"La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage."
"The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less."
"Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them."
"Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale"
"Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles."
"I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales."
"In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain."
"Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality."
"The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale."
"She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life."
"A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders."
"An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality."
"If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale."
"You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe."
"True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale."
"Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family."
"I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale."
"I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale."
