Top 206 Micro Quotes & Sayings

We live in an age of micro aggressions where people are deemed racist or sexist of phobic for making one wrong tweet.

I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.

Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.

I've been in the industry doing games since the BBC Micro, the Acorn Atom, the Commodore 64.

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.

I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.

I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

The personal computer was a disruptive innovation relative to the mainframe because it enabled even a poor fool like me to have a computer and use it, and it was enabled by the development of the micro processor. The micro processor made it so simple to design and build a computer that IB could throw in together in a garage. And so, you have that simplifying technology as a part of every disruptive innovation. It then becomes an innovation when the technology is embedded in a different business model that can take the simplified solution to the market in a cost-effective way.

I think the Internet is having an impact in very diverse ways anchored around amplifying voice, from enabling what I like to refer to as micro-activism.

Corporate blogging strategy requires some specialist insight in order to understand tone, the definition of micro-niche leaders, and subjects to cover.

The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all other probabilities should be interpreted subjectively, as merely revealing our ignorance about physical details. I have argued against this position, contending that the objectivity of micro-physical probabilities entails the objectivity of macro-probabilities.

Just because you can wear a micro-miniskirt it doesn't mean you should. You don't need to show your midriff, either, if you're over 40.

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

Micro-Content + Community Management = Effective Social Media Marketing

We imagine 'the end' as a world-devastating event, but every time there's a terrible earthquake, a tsunami, an outbreak of disease - that's apocalyptic, on a micro-scale.

As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

There should not be a micro-managing of terminology with the Library of Congress.

The most important thing for us to do as beings is to be aware of our position in the world on a micro and macro level.

I can't help you. Not really. I can only show up with a bright heart and hope that I get you at the right micro-moment with the perfect dose of light that helps you see what you already know.

Italy itself has 21 different micro-regions. You go within each of those regions, there's even super-micro-regions; and the beauty is that when you go from place to place, although there's a common thread of pasta and joie de vivre - in the way that they approach their meals and the simplicity of cooking, celebrating more the product than the chef - there's still so much variety that as you go, it's always an exciting moment.

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.

It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

Be smart about selecting your micro niches for communicating in the blogosphere.

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.

A well-seasoned and properly cleaned wok will always have micro-pores in the metal that hold some oil or food particulate, etc. - that's a good thing.

Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being

Politics has certainly changed a lot in an era of micro-targeting, Super PACs, and Twitter.

Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.

The millions or billions of micro decisions that you're going to make, that's what will determine who you are as a writer, not you deciding in advance.

I got very serious about micro-piglets and what it would be like to own them.

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

I agree that zinc is one of the important micro-nutrients but people require a balanced blend of food for our biological engines.

I invented an algorithm for starting micro turbo-molecular vacuum pumps to be used in science instruments on a future Mars rover.

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro.

You go into another time zone when you are a parent of an autistic child, where any micro movement in a positive direction is such a cause for celebration.

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity cost is near the top.

Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey.

I love pigs. I think they're very cute. I really want a pet pig, but those micro pigs, they don't stay micro.

You can't really micro-manage. You'll never make the movie in 52 days, if you micro-manage. If you do that, you take the creativity away from people because people just really quickly become disinterested when they're always being told how to do it.

I think what they've been doing is largely almost in firefighting mode without a good conceptual framework - either at the micro or the macro level. Micro, you would ask: "What kind of financial or banking system do we want?" Macro, you would say: "What are the underlying problems in the structure of our economy?"

I had to learn how to not be a micro-manager. Maternity leave made me do that. I just couldn't anymore.

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

I urge the Government to look carefully at scrapping the entire burden of regulation on micro-businesses with, say, three employees or fewer.

I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.

Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

I think in any country you have macro situations and micro ones.

The behavior of the economy as a whole, at the aggregate, macro-level, is built up from the individual equations at the micro-level.

We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.

We chase gravity of the micro world, but after leaving its world we try to perfect the laws here that do not exist there.