Scale Quotes

“Get Off The Scale!

You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable. Day after day, countless people across the globe get on a scale in search of validation of beauty and social acceptance.

Get off the scale! I have yet to see a scale that can tell you how enchanting your eyes are. I have yet to see a scale that can show you how wonderful your hair looks when the sun shines its glorious rays on it. I have yet to see a scale that can thank you for your compassion, sense of humor, and contagious smile. Get off the scale because I have yet to see one that can admire you for your perseverance when challenged in life.

It’s true, the scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity. That’s it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength, or love. Don’t give the scale more power than it has earned. Take note of the number, then get off the scale and live your life. You are beautiful!”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. ( " Homeless down in the corner")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.”
― Moses Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed

“Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”
― Plutarch

“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in our hands, born of tangible, demonstrable, almost consoling things. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

“Ideas don’t come out fully formed , they only become clearer as you work on them . You just have to get started.”
― Mark Zuckerberg

“Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!

("The Jelly-Fish")”
― David H. Keller, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

“We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly intelligent, likely more intelligent—​I’m guessing, for I have not seen the SAT scores—​than octopuses. Why, for that matter, is intelligence the scale by which we decide whom to spare? Or size? Have the simple and the small less right to live?”
― Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

“When we join together, we can increase our bargaining power.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“We spread our sleeping bags on the snow and crawled inside. The vantage point was dizzying. It was impossible to tell whether the comet was above us or we were above the comet; we were all falling through space, missing the stars by inches.”
― Anne Fadiman, At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays

“A business is a business, regardless of it's size and scale.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Applying renewable energy sources in full at scale will make possible a multitude of new business opportunities.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Let go of Osama Bin Laden, let go of books where bombs go off and people die, let go of this war you have no scale for, that you don't understand.”
― Lavie Tidhar, Osama

“Hungry, we are hungry for the whole world.
We are like the small fish in the sea,
the ones who swim into the mouths of larger ones
to take what's there.”
― Linda Hogan, The Book of Medicines

“On a cosmic scale, it seems that the life of a single plant or animal is completely insignificant. Then, on the same scale, I also am insignificant; and you, too. In fact, everyone and everything is insignificant, and therefore no one and nothing is insignificant.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“The USA is dangerous on a global scale.”
― Steven Magee

“Life is like a two sided scale how much you attempt for it that much you will get.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“One by one she would cut through the orbits of Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion... worlds bearing the names of gods and goddesses who had vanished only yesterday, as time was counted here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“When you cement systems of operation, you can’t get out…even when you get to the top. It’s a myth to think you can escape the grind before learning to live in the present.”
― Richie Norton

“Exits are great but it’s better to do it as a choice, not a consequence of bad moda operandi.”
― Richie Norton

“A higher‐probability path to growth at scale is to leverage your proven strengths to adapt your original offering for adjacent markets. Don't venture too far afield if you don't need to, though. You can expand your capacity to sell while at the same time increasing your addressable market—without trying to strike gold a second time. That's how we continued to grow ServiceNow, which was already a super grower when I joined but still had plenty of room to expand its core offering.”
― Frank Slootman, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

“English: "Each refusal or acceptance has its extent."

Česky: „Každé odmítnutí nebo souhlas má svou míru.”
― Sebastián Wortys, Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie

“The act of delegation is a slippery slope for managers. Yes, you want to figure out how not to be a bottleneck in your organization and, yes, you want to figure out how to scale, but you also want to continue to get your hands dirty.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“Elle ne savait rien des soucis grands et temporels, elle vivait pour ses soucis petits et éternels.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke

“Scalability inherently requires your functional ability not to be present.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“The neighbourhood is a social construct that enables people to live, work and play together in close quarters with a feeling of engagement and security beyond their existence as individuals. (...) a sense of scale and community that is manageable, more village-like than urban. The most attractive neighbourhoods [are] the ones where there’s a palpable sense of an open, rather than closed community. Being a good neighbour is not about watching from behind your curtains and reporting any suspected misdemeanour to the police - it’s about inhabiting your neighbourhood beyond the curtains, bringing life to your street with open arms, not closed minds.”
― Hugo Macdonald, How to Live in the City

“Freedom is the scale upon which the political contrivances of men must be weighed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You know the sun doesn't rise and set on your bathroom scale, darling.”
― H. T. Boyd