When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all. — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
It's not like you're closing the old doors and that investigators working away in a laboratories on a unique hypothesis are no… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Go out there and see where the world needs your touch. That kind of meaning not only makes you feel more connected… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I do tend to like movies that challenge me professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two… — Ayelet Zurer Copy Share Image
We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I tell people that the scales lie. You may have played basketball and weighed 175 pounds, with a 30-inch waist, back when… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You should diligently play scales and fingerpractices. There are many, however, who believe they'll achieve all, by practicing daily on technique for… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Suppose hypothetically that one out of every 200 people or so is a jerk. In today's world these jerks will discover that… — Michael Strong Copy Share Image
(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction. — George Soros Copy Share Image
