Scales Quotes

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

Work on nothing less than epic scale

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.

We aspire to make artisanal tortillas on an industrial scale.

La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.

In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along.

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.