The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that’s really dreamy.
On a scale of one to 10, I’d rate my body confidence as a good seven. Everyone has their hang-ups, but I see my body as a training tool and I feel good about it.
Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, ‘Can they innovate and scale their business?’ And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.
I know how coming in as a rookie, on a rookie scale, you don’t really know what you can buy, what you want to buy.
Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.’ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
Like many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States’ withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed South Vietnamese desperately trying to scale the walls of our embassy in Saigon to board the last helicopter flights out of the country. The fear in their eyes was chilling.
We have a good sense of the pulse of the industry. We know what’s going on out there. We know that deep learning adoption is broad. It’s going into production at scale.
Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.
In my personal belief, the big problem with climate change is getting people to understand the magnitude and scale that we’re dealing with. If you buy a vehicle that gets 35 miles to the gallon, that means nothing; it’s not enough. We need to make changes across society and in every piece of the energy pie.
I guess my mission statement is now to let the world know on a global scale that WWE certainly is a wonderful form of entertainment, but its superstars are more than just superstars inside the ring. They do so much more outside the ring and have so much more to offer.
I’ve done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for ‘Let Me Explain,’ I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out – ‘Ride Along,’ ‘Grudge Match,’ ‘About Last Night,’ ‘Think Like a Man Too’ – are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.
Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the size of the holdings.
I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.
As we scale, we will be able to drive the business with more efficiency, which will allow us to pass on more benefits to the consumers.
By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is central to all the challenges humanity faces. If there is an issue to be addressed, then it is certainly happening in cities and therefore must be considered on an urban scale.
Age is not really the biggest factor, whichever end of the scale you are at. It’s how you perform, how you respond to the challenge of having good players around you competing for your place.
The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale.
People who are passionate about Warby Parker are passionate about creating a company that can scale, be profitable, and do good in the world – without charging a premium for it.
My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale of succulence. She’d try new methods.
There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to ‘see the scale.’
If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.
The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a result, we have new ways to allow people to exercise their human and civil rights.
What works at scale may be different from scaling what works. Pilots often succeed, while scale-up often fails when the context changes.
The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on ‘Time’ magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, ‘Wow.’ And it made ‘Time’ magazine come down to life-size scale.
I never weigh myself. That’s the best advice I can give – never step on a scale. You know if you’re being healthy, if you’re exercising. You don’t need to be undermined by some crazy number.
I once worked it out – after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That’s because we’re all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won’t live in it. It’s too big.
Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world’s biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.
So many people have to struggle for years, very few bands get success with their first record, but I was instantly successful and famous on a very large scale, which was scary.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
Biology is greener and, at scale, should be incredibly cost-effective: The cost of goods sold should be little more than the sugar water needed to brew almost anything.
‘Clothespin’ was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
