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Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
On a 1 to 10 scale, I don't think that I could model, but I could definitely end a Republican senator's career.
Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.
To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.
We need to figure out a way to create more energy on a gigawatt scale and not create so much CO2 in the process.
I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.
I hope to make clear that involvement in small scale community work can make a difference in our city's politics.
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.
The story of 'Libra Scale,' the storyline was created first, and then the music was created around the story line.
As cyberweapons and cyberattacks increase in scale and intensity, it will be difficult to defend against them all.
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place.
In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.
It's a good thing to remember that hiring will get easier as you scale - but you should also never drop your standards.
The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven.
If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.
I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale.
On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.
I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
When you're on a scale like we are in 170 countries and hundreds of thousands of people, you have a single point of view.
On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
We live in a time of extremes. People think that, on a scale of 1-10, if they're not at a 10 for happy, they're not happy.
The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.
Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.
A world of derived beings, an immense, wide creation, requires an extended scale with various ranks and orders of existence.
On a scale of 1-10, I would consider myself an 8.5 rowdy. I prefer being rowdy in the day. I'm a 10 day rowdy, 7 night rowdy.
I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.
I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.
If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.
I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.
Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.
Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.
I like Dubai because of the sheer scale on which the city is built. It is completely futuristic but with a warm, old-world ethos.
Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.