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Scale will get you strategy. -- Nicholas Negroponte
Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental. -- Massimo Vignelli
Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale. -- Nancy Lancaster
On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy Krueger. Granuaile MacTiernan -- Kevin Hearne
A Large-Scale Revolution can not happen without a higher-awareness to seek Personal Growth on an individual level. -- Matthew Donnelly
Then Scale by scale, We strip off The delicacy And eat The peaceful mush Of its green heart. -- Pablo Neruda
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. -- Ann Voskamp
Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever. -- Seth Godin
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale. -- Trinny Woodall
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It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. -- Jacques Ellul
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon of our observations. -- Martin Rees
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. -- Michael Korda
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region. -- Antony Hewish
Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy. -- Bjorn Lomborg
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. -- Lester B. Pearson
Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning. -- Naveen Jain
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule. -- Paul McEuen
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. -- Anais Nin
People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about. -- Henry Bessemer
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on. -- Noam Chomsky
I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope style skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd. -- Nick Goepper
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. -- Vince Cable
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for. -- Frank Gehry
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way. -- Bill Bryson
Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian. -- Carlo Ratti
Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive. -- Theresa May
I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today. -- Mark Zuckerberg
The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated. -- Tina Brown
Work on nothing less than epic scale -- Francis Ford Coppola
We get talent and scale from mergers. -- Angela Braly
Boxing is drama on its grandest scale. -- Howard Cosell
Longing on a large scale makes history. -- Don DeLillo
The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances. -- Mason Cooley
Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale. -- Marian Burros
We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan]. -- Vladimir Putin
I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell! -- Henrik Ibsen
Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
We are not significant on the cosmic scale. -- Sean M. Carroll
Some dream in color. We dream in scale. -- Beth Comstock
I didn't want to lose the human scale. -- Minoru Yamasaki
War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale. -- Newton Lee
The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering. -- Winnie Byanyima
I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified. -- James Galway
Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting. -- Pippa Middleton
Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat. -- Dinsha Patel
Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective. -- Saul Bellow
Do things that won't scale; it will teach you. -- Brian Chesky
What magic scale childhood does make of raw reality. -- Brendan Cowell
Ignore the scale, and make the process your goal. -- Harley Pasternak
The balance of power is the scale of peace. -- Thomas Paine
You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees. -- Kristin Cashore
It's important to understand differences in scale and environment. -- Richard Meier
Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale. -- Clint Walker
Why don't we scale up those things that do work. -- Tavis Smiley
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. -- Aeschylus
Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought. -- Dogen
War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale. -- Carl von Clausewitz
With the power of God, we can scale any wall. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale -- Jeff Griffin
Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them. -- George Eliot
We aspire to make artisanal tortillas on an industrial scale. -- Steve Ells
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. -- Ellsworth Huntington
He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale. -- Nick Hornby
Frozen is a phenomenon on an entirely new Disney scale. -- Edward Kitsis
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. -- Gore Vidal
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. -- T. Boone Pickens
Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! -- Lucy Larcom
On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations. -- Noam Chomsky
Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it. -- John P. Kotter
Patience is the Gnostic's scale and the humble the garden's door. -- Samael Aun Weor
Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. -- Thom Mayne
I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale. -- George R. R. Martin
Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea -- Stewart Friedman
Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? -- Wilfred Burchett
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale. -- Anna Godbersen
I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale. -- Elvis Costello
Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale. -- Donna Tartt
Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale. -- Fred Wilson
The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book. -- Dick Dale
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. -- Richard Dawkins
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture. -- Jan Gehl
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. -- Agnes Repplier
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality. -- Friedrich Schiller
The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale, -- Boris Johnson
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. -- Brad Pitt
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything, -- Anish Kapoor
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. -- Vladimir Putin
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. -- Stephen Gardiner
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit. -- Luis von Ahn
What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale. -- Alex Trebek
On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve. -- George Strait
The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale -- Tony Benn
In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale. -- John Lyall
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. -- Don DeLillo
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising. -- Stephen King
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale. -- Stanley Kubrick
Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale. -- Tony Blair
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. -- Plutarch
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. -- Francis Ford Coppola
We have the global scale, but not everyone has 4G in the world. -- Hans Vestberg
I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale. -- Brooke Burke
I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale. -- Alison Krauss
Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit. -- Randall Munroe
Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves. -- Sue Tompkins
I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale. -- Charles Francis Richter
Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale. -- Muhammad Ali
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture. -- Mason Cooley
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence. -- Alexander Pope
Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has. -- Mark Shields
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics. -- Lara St. John
Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance. -- Delarivier Manley

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