Scales Quotes - Page 36

• I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Philosophical, Player, Years

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• Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Passion, Chaos, Intense

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

  Elvis Costello

  Musician, Bigger

  "Elvis Costello: 'I've never liked the word maturity. It implies decay'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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• For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

  Louis C. K.

  Living My Life, Grew Up, Plenty

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• The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Science, Reality

  The Blind Watchmaker Chapter 11

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• To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

  Rita Dove

  Order, Practice, Play

  "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.

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• The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, People, Problem

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.182, Universities Press

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• I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Fishing, Practice

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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

  Media, Technique, Use

  "Jan. 6, 1912: Birth of the Supreme Tech Skeptic", www.wired.com. January 5, 2009.

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• History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

  Hugh Evans

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  "Highlighting the Plight of the Poor" by Hugh Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2011.

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• Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

  Colin Firth

  Real, Errors, People

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• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  Harrison Ford

  Caring, Thinking, Action

  "Harrison Ford criticises 'soulless' action films". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 31, 2011.

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• I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Believe, Swimming, Fighting

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• 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

  Peace, Truth, Vision

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.43, A&C Black

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• Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

  Bill Gates

  Miracle, Nuclear, Today

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• The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Agents, World, Impossible

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.547, Basic Books

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• 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

  Obvious Things, Car, Clients

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• You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

  Mel Gibson

  Numbers, Humiliation, Asks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

  Seth Godin

  School, Government, People

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• CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

  Al Gore

  Past, Civilization, Done

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• Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.

  Stone Gossard

  Real, Thinking, World

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• I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.

  Ellie Goulding

  Athlete, Age, And Love

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

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• Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

  Kirk Hammett

  Mean, Use, Solo

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• If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Successful, Looks, Lines

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