Quotes with scale-

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  • Anne McCaffrey I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Carl Bernstein If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Bill Bryson If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Caleb Deschanel In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Alexander Dubcek In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Baba Kalyani In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Philip Roth Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Carl Sagan It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
    Source: Cosmos (1980) 98
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Brendan Gill It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
    Brendan Gill
     
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Aeschylus Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Carlo Ratti Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • André Malraux Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Kathleen Raine Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the ''correspondence'' through which we may know our boundless selves.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • William S. Burroughs No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bruce Springsteen No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Plutarch Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Brad Feld Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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