Quotes About Scale

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale.

Life fears chaos. It was ever thus. We fear it more than anything else, because it is anathema. Order battles against dissolution. Order negotiates cooperation as a mechanism of survival, on every scale, from a patch of skin to an entire menagerie of interdependent creatures. That cooperation, of course, may not of essence be necessarily peaceful - a minute exchange of failures to ensure greater successes.

All life is sorcery. In its very essence, the soul is magical, and each process of chemistry, of obeisance and cooperation, of surrender and of struggle—at every scale conceivable—is a consort of sorcery.

We have no intuition for such events at the atomic scale, being the gargantuan creatures composed of trillions upon trillions of atoms that we are.

In 1899, the father of quantum theory, a German physicist named Max Planck, realized that there was one and only one way to combine these fundamental constants to produce a scale of length.

To grasp how different a million is from a billion, think about it like this: A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

I'm heartened that, for the first time, we're seeing some of the Internet Service Providers and the social media sites taking action against the Islamic State. That's the kind of initiative that can very, very much augment on an industrial scale what the government is trying to do.

I am confident that our experience, our scale, our intimate knowledge of the needs of our customers put us on the front line of economic and social progress.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

My biggest frustration is the lack of scale in the music industry. The fact that no one has sold 100 million copies of an album is frustrating.

People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as some big solution.

There is this notion that is quite popular in the environmental scene that every little bit helps, or 'Think global, act local.' I disagree with that. I think you have to start with how big the solution needs to be to solve the problem and then reason backward from there.

In a country like India, we need to solve problems at scale.

One of the things that inspires me about working for Google is that when we solve a problem here, we can get that used by one million or even a billion people. That is very motivating as a computer scientist.

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

Els dits humans poden notar el tacte d'objectes de fins a tretze nanòmetres, cosa que significa que si tinguéssim un dit de la mida de la Terra podríem notar la diferència entre un estable i un cavall.

the slopes and summits that stand around them like solidified silence—time made visible in a different way, ancient and on an elongated scale.

Climate change has never received the crisis treatment from our leaders, despite the fact that it carries the risk of destroying lives on a vastly greater scale than collapsed banks or collapsed buildings.

cambiar de rumbo puede salvar vidas a una escala