Scale Quotes

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Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture. — Jan Gehl
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. — Amos Oz
We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity,… — Kenzo Tange
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… — Anne McCaffrey
Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power,… — Frank Knight
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. — Ambrose Bierce
If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers. — Frederick W. Smith
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale. — Charlotte Bunch
Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. — Arthur Koestler
Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars… — Bjorn Lomborg
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.… — David Foster Wallace
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a… — Umberto Eco
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. — Walter Bagehot
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he… — Arthur Koestler
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them… — Gore Vidal
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced… — Elizabeth Lesser
Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities.… — John L'Heureux
The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them… — John Elkington
It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on… — Geneen Roth
Patterns of these UFOs appearance and behavior suggest a limited range of sizes and shapes of unidentified craft, despite the often-desperate efforts on the part… — Don Berliner

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