Quotes About Magnitude

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

Big problems usually come from big sources.

We produce thirty-year projections of social security deficits and oil prices without realizing that we cannot even predict these for next summer—our cumulative prediction errors for political and economic events are so monstrous that every time I look at the empirical record I have to pinch myself to verify that I am not dreaming. What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it.

the negative effect for an average loss to be up to 2.5 the magnitude of a positive one); it will lead to an emotional deficit.

The larger the event, the larger the difference.

The gains from size are visible but the risks are hidden

The problem is primarily size, and the fragility that comes from size.

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it. This

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it.

How frequent the profit is irrelevant; it is the magnitude of the outcome that counts.

Outside of that it is the magnitude that counts.

The wreckage of their personal life is a monument to the magnitude of their unconsciousness concerning the internal world of the self.

making possible huge economies of scale in the application of force majeure. (Subjects whose mind-bogglingly vast numbers beggar Agent First's imagination: it makes no sense, who needs that many slaves?)

the only difference between a wise man and a fool was in the magnitude of his mistakes. To err was human, and the smarter and more powerful you were, the greater the scope of your screwup.

As a grandiose self-deception, war is o' the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the same time - as a means o' defeatin' death, but neither o' them do a blinkin' thing but sanction dyin'. Throughout history, Death's best friend has been a priest with a knife.

As a grandiose self-deception, war is o' the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion—usually both at the same time—as a means o' defeatin' death, but neither o' them do a blinkin' thing but sanction dyin'. Throughout history, Death's best friend has been a priest with a knife.

We should consider ourselves lucky, honored, blessed that we possess the capacity to feel tenderness of such magnitude and be grateful even when that love is not returned. Love is the only game in which we win even when we lose.

He says there are millions of stars, Raba. Millions.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

The nations are as a drop of a bucket.

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.