Scale Quotes

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Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective. — Saul Bellow
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less. — Albert Camus
Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful. — Deepak Chopra
I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our… — Freeman Dyson
It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a… — Robert Motherwell
Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this -… — Stan Smith
Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go… — Enrico Fermi
I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas... Within me sounded the… — Wassily Kandinsky
Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone… — Ai Weiwei
The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it… — Rowan Williams
It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom… — Jared Bernstein
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively. — Tommy Shaw
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens… — Earl Browder
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind… — Antony Hewish
We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which… — Max Planck
But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own… — Mark Hopkins
Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant. — Roald Amundsen
If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi
If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all… — Shane Black
I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to… — Jonathan Franzen

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