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For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it's the separation of the intervals.
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.
I got fed up with the idea of partnering with labels on a major scale because of how they have to deliver things. They get gun-shy.
The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.
Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.
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.
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.
I joined the board of Chipotle because no company has ever been able to scale fresh, properly sourced food in the history of America.
Hyatt lost its appeal because it was too big a machine. It's easy to systematize economies of scale, but you slowly lose who you are.
It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
I'm happy with myself. I respect myself. And I know that no man, no jeans, no scale, and no booker is in control of my future - I am.
To make the films I want, I just have to live within my means and scale down my lifestyle - and be with somebody who's cool with that.
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.
I'm very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale of human social behavior.
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.
What works at scale may be different from scaling what works. Pilots often succeed, while scale-up often fails when the context changes.
We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform.
I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.
Any time you give the average person the opportunity to explain themselves on a national scale, they're always going to sound like a fool.
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.
It seemed to me the perfect company for the 21st century would be one that was technology-orientated with great content and national scale.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.
If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.
Diane Cluck is part of the anti-folk movement in New York. She's got a really haunting voice, and she usually sings in the pentatonic scale.
When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
Needless to say, anybody who can stumble through a C-major scale knows that Art Tatum always gave his audiences 10 times their money's worth.
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.
Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.
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.
The cost to do business in Australia is higher, and the lack of scale is a part of that - Australia is a very small market compared to the U.S.
Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.
People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.
In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.
Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.
We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.
The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.
The Kind Foundation was created to scale our social impact and be able to deepen our focus on fostering empathy and developing kinder communities.
Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.
Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon of our observations.
I'm on the daft scale. I mean, I am a typical Virgo in some ways. I am driven. I like to be prepared. I make lists. But I also like to muck around.
Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.