Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale. Votes: 2
Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived. Votes: 2
The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort. Votes: 2
I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale. Votes: 2
I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry. Votes: 2
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection. Votes: 2
I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful. Votes: 2
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. Votes: 2
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about. Votes: 2
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise. Votes: 2
I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process. Votes: 2
Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen. Votes: 2
The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance. Votes: 2
To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. Votes: 2
On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions. Votes: 2
Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea Votes: 0
The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves. Votes: 0
I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale. Votes: 0
Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live. Votes: 0
True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale. Votes: 0
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood. Votes: 0
A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia. Votes: 0
Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them. Votes: 0
Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale. Votes: 0
...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great. Votes: 0
Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life, Votes: 0
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. Votes: 0
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth. Votes: 0
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. Votes: 0
Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times. Votes: 0
That's what I love about the Internet. Even if it's small-scale and you're just posting on a forum, that's an uncensored expression. That's what I love. Votes: 0
Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me. Votes: 0
In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector. Votes: 0
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. Votes: 0
Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small. Votes: 0
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars. Votes: 0
A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one. Votes: 0
Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton. Votes: 0
People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless. Votes: 0
Power is not just for TV sets and charging mobile phones. This electricity is critical to the industrial development of this area. If there is electricity, small scale industry will grow. Votes: 0
I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility. Votes: 0
When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.
Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale.
I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.
We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership of banks - there's a whole series of these that attempt to fill the small-scale infrastructure that can build up to a larger theoretical vision.
Scale will get you strategy. Votes: 3 Nicholas Negroponte
Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless Votes: 4 M.G. Wells