Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.
For me, if I get up and don't meditate and don't eat something before having caffeine, I go from 0 to 10 on the stress scale.
The LeftRight scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.
I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.
I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton. . . oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.
Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.
Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.