Scales Quotes - Page 23

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.

E. F. Schumacher

Order, Organization, Likes

E.F.SCHUMACHER (1973). “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”

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In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair of the people, and that of a people numbering thirty millions, every one of whom regarded himself as a citizen of the State... By this participation of the people in the war... a whole Nation with its natural weight came into the scale.

Carl von Clausewitz

War, People, Citizens

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There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.

Willie Soon

Clouds, Water, Vapour

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It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which the highest inquiry into meaning and ethics and beauty coincides with the largest-scale imagination of the nature of reality itself.

Marilynne Robinson

Mean, Reality, Thinking

Source: www.pbs.org

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Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or something like that - popularizations, inevitably, of scientific cosmologies - because their description of the scale of things and the intrinsic, astonishing character of reality coincides very beautifully with the most ambitious theology. It is thinking at that scale, and it is thinking that is invested with meaning in a humanly evocative form. That's theology.

Marilynne Robinson

Character, Reality, Thinking

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We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.

Marilynne Robinson

Reality, Vocabulary, Opposites

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Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He is very interesting and important because he was also a metaphysician. He knew a great deal about what was, for him, contemporary science. He was very much influenced by Isaac Newton, for example. There are planets and meteors and so on showing up in his hymns very often. But, again, the scale of his religious imagination corresponds to a very generously scaled scientific imagination.

Marilynne Robinson

Religious, Hymns, Imagination

Source: www.pbs.org

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When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.

Michel Gondry

Technology, Opportunity, Way

"‘Green Hornet’ Director Michel Gondry Talks Hardships In Hollywood". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. January 19, 2011.

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The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.

Stephen Beal

Meditation, Sound, Gestures

Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. November 19, 2010.

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When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

Roger Chamberlain

Nature, Bears, Reason

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There is a branding influence on my work. But there's nothing really new about people as brands. The only difference is the scale and exposure.

Noma Bar

Differences, People, Influence

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We aren't lazy, overweight models. We work out and must maintain proportionate bodies for work. Plus models are curvy and fit. Don't let the scale fool you. Plus doesn't always equal unhealthy, just like skinny doesn't always equal healthy.

Liris Crosse

Work Out, Healthy, Lazy

Source: www.refinery29.com

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Kids don't care what party they have, right? They want cake and they want to run around. Nothing else matters. But in this escalation, all the kids want parties like their friends. So, if all the friends have an amazing, expensive party, they all want the same thing. If we all got to scale down as a coordinated effort, all the kids would have been just as happy.

Dan Ariely

Running, Party, Kids

The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

Peter Ustinov

Boys, Men, Order

"Romanoff and Juliet". Play by Peter Ustinov, 1956.

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I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars.... And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light.... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.

Carl Sagan

Religious, Stars, Book

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I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

Harrison Ford

Thinking, Years, Games

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

Lewis Mumford

Fashion, Machines, Leisure

"The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter: "Myth of Megalopolis", 1961.

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Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

Frank Herbert

Mistake, Hero, Problem

"Dune Genesis". "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, (p. 72), July 1980.

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Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Men, Rights, Race

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3053, Library of Alexandria

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Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.

Maimonides

Men, Views, Evil

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Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.

Howard Rheingold

Smart, Communication, Media

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Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.

Masami Saionji

Perfect, Existence, Humans

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First of all, I love women. But I lust after beautiful women in the way that I lust after a beautiful piece of sculpture - this will probably get me in trouble - or a beautiful car. I believe everyone's on a sliding scale of sexuality. There are moments where I am sexually attracted to women. But it doesn't overpower my first impulse; my lust for them is the same as my lust for beauty in all things.

Tom Ford

Beautiful, Believe, Car

Interview With John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 30, 2010.

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I've seen a lot of people getting into Jazzmasters because of me, and, well, people don't know what they're in for. I mean if you're looking for endless sustain, you're going to have to get it out of your hands (laughs). Because a saxophonist gets it out of his breath. You've got to work for it on the guitar - it means you have to pull it out of yourself, otherwise, what are you doing? You end up playing a lot of noise or scale exercises.

Tom Verlaine

Mean, Exercise, Guitar

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The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people?

Paul Nitze

Wise, Thinking, Compelling Reason

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