Scales Quotes - Page 9

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

Scott Westerfeld

Character, Illustration, Design

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For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.

Duncan Jones

Smart, Two, Blade Runner

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.

Maximus the Confessor

Christian, Real, Eye

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Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

Charles C. Mann

Party, Two, Textbooks

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Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.

Charles C. Mann

Home, Light, Long

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My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale and through my art start a global conversation.

Ana Tzarev

Dream, Art, Flower

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Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.

Glenn Beck

Hate, Tears, Growing

"Beck: 'The Violent Left Is Coming To Our Streets' 'To Smash, To Tear Down, To Kill, To Bankrupt, To Destroy'". Values Voter Summit, www.mediamatters.org. October 08, 2011.

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Thank God, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers.

Vladimir Putin

Thinking, Russia, Thank God

"Vladimir Putin Issues New 'Large Nuclear Power' Warning to West". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2004.

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I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.

Elon Musk

Moving, Mean, Trying

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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

Philip Yancey

Jesus, Philosophical, Healing

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The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.

Dan Pallotta

Dream, Apples, Google

"Do We Have The Wrong Idea About Charity?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 17, 2013.

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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.

Anish Kapoor

Talking, Skins, Sculpture

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Generally I'm wide open to people; I love helping them in any way I possibly can. But for me to invest, a business has to have a lot of creative scale; it has to be unique.

J. Christopher Burch

Unique, People, Creative

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From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

Richard Siken

Landscape

Richard Siken (2015). “War of the Foxes”, p.38, Copper Canyon Press

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People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

Jodi Kantor

Children, Careers, Two

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The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.

John Katzman

Technology, Market Leaders, Quality

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I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

Running, Textiles, Weaving

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One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.

Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

Characteristics, Bigs, Contracts

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Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

Evelyn Lauder

Wall, Eye, Reality

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For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

Karl Lehmann

Would Be, Fundamentals, Matter

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There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

Gloria Allred

Silly, Law, Regulation

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If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

Khalil Gibran

Husband, Heart, Wife

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

Charles Francis Richter

Confusion, Confusing, Use

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Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ocean, Arrows, Mountain

Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.459

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We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale... The end of it all is vexation of spirit.

Walter Weyl

Luxury, Today, Vexation

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