You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
Some dream in color. We dream in scale.
I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.
He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.
What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.
Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. . . . it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.
By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.
I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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.
Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.
When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you have completely mastered the instrument, the music plays for you. But you still have to keep practicing. And it takes an awful lot of practice. Nonetheless, if you diligently practice, hours and hours and hours and hours, you probably won't get it. You'll probably just end up hurting your fingers.
We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan].
As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercussions, then the next question is okay, what are we going to do about it?
Today we are in a situation in which the free movement of people can have enormous, monumental dimensions, and I don't think that any country in Western Europe or in America can any longer adopt the idea of totally free movement of people. I t would simply overwhelm their social facilities, their societies and create migratory dynamics on the scales of tens and tens of millions of people. That simply is not practical.
When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.