Scales Quotes - Page 30

• Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Beautiful, Distance, Small Objects

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

  Laurent Dubois

  Firsts, Revolution, Remember

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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• Part of being able to make great decisions around that and to really grow a business and scale a business, it also comes down to people. I spend a lot of time building teams at both businesses - both The Trump Organization and my own - and thinking about who to hire to supplement the team and allow us to best achieve our goals.

  Ivanka Trump

  Team, Thinking, Organization

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview with Rachel Gillett, www.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time.

  Ivanka Trump

  People, Leader, Important

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview with Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• I think the way the world has evolved, it's maybe caught up to me. It makes more sense and it makes it click on a larger scale.

  Jeremy Scott

  Thinking, World, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Globally, proving myself working well with Adidas, showing my work could be globally distributed and loved and appreciated and still be challenging. Maybe I'm one of the first people on a larger scale to make more challenging and more unique items.

  Jeremy Scott

  Unique, People, Challenges

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Income, Sculpture, Projects

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• I didn't deserve to be president just based on the Richter scale of 'Was I tough enough and did I understand the process?'

  Joe Biden

  President, Tough, Enough

  "Biden, Dodd Bow Out of Presidential Race". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 4, 2008.

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• If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.

  Norm Phelps

  Animal, Views, Rights

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• You don't need a hand-out, you need a hand-up! And that's what we need to portray: 'Look, do you want to live in mediocrity? Because that's all that the entitlements are going to do for you. Keep you living in the lowest socio-economic scale.

  Rafael Cruz

  Hands, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

  Chris Gethard

  Perseverance, Luck, Fields

  "Mike Birbiglia and Chris Gethard sit down and chat about ‘Don’t Think Twice’". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, thecinemafiles.com. August 2, 2016.

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• That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Attitude, Cost, My Attitude

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do make some drawings for wall pieces. I do work out some ideas for large-scale wall pieces where I have to organize words or get proportions right. I do keep them in my files. Not an exhibit or a show; just as part of my records, my archives.

  Robert Barry

  Wall, Ideas, Drawing

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation's opportunities are not going to be improvement. So and I also think that social media then allows insurgent movements to gain scale at speed.

  Tony Blair

  Opportunity, Thinking, Media

  The MSNBC Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.

  David Batstone

  Years, People, Employment

  Source: forums.juniper.net

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• I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

  Country, Believe, People

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• From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

  Bellamy Young

  Kindness, Generosity, Helping

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• There are hundreds, even thousands of remarkable pilot or experimental projects in all fields - in agriculture, health, education. But where do these pilots take us? Do they lead to change on a broader scale? If not, how can we ensure that they have broader impact?

  Ruth Simmons

  Agriculture, Impact, Health Education

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of reproductive health care. We are very grateful to have received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue our work.

  Ruth Simmons

  Grateful, Support, Innovation

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

  Ruth Simmons

  Team, Years, Firsts

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• We are trying to discover where this approach could have the greatest possibility of large-scale impact. We have to choose wisely and see where there is greatest interest and need.

  Ruth Simmons

  Impact, Trying, Needs

  "An Interview with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grantee Ruth Simmons". The Journal of International Institute Interview, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2001.

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• I'm based in Atlanta so there weren't a lot of people to talk to about fashion because no one was really doing it on the scale that I wanted to do it. I had to do a lot of research on my own.

  Fred Foster

  Fashion, Atlanta, People

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces.

  Fred Foster

  Pieces, Bills, Customs

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that feels and sounds good, and sometimes you only hear the trumpet or just the bass and piano. Sometimes all four are playing at the same time, but perhaps at different volume.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Ideas, Piano, Trying

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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• For most of the rise of modern medicine, the brain was a really unknown zone and was all based in guesswork. Well, that's all changing. And the opioid recovery is a very good example of the scale of change we're seeing.

  Newt Gingrich

  Recovery, Medicine, Brain

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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