Top 345 Scales Quotes & Sayings

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and humbled by those scales and in awe, and delighted that I get to be here; that I'm lucky enough, that we are lucky enough to get experience these things for the tiny finger snap of time that we get to be on Earth.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

I do not see scales as abstract.

The scales of justice often, in my head, are unbalanced. And so my job is to try to balance out those scales.

At the fishmonger, choose fish with bright scales and clear eyes.

To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

I cannot say that I know a lot about scales, but I can write songs.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so we'd figure them out. I'd start the scale on the root of the chord and I'd go as far as my hand would reach without going out of position, say, five frets, and then I'd go all the way back. So when ! practised I'd start right away on scales. As well as the usual ones, I'd play whole tone scales, diminished, dominant sevenths, and chromatic scales. Every chord form, all the way up, and this took an hour.

I always say you shouldn't weigh yourself. I don't even have a set of scales in my house.

IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales.

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...

scales are the grammar of music.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left end right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became. When the water around him filled with glimmering scales, he at last felt at home among the other fish.

We spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely large scales of galaxies.

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

I'm into scales right now.

When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

Scales are not allowed in my house.

I've never been much for theory and scales.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

I've never actually learnt scales. I should someday.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

By definition, as a company scales rapidly, it adds people quickly.

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

When I first started playing guitar, I would sit in my room for hours and learn scales.

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

Get digital scales because, for baking, balance scales just aren't accurate enough: it's all in the weighing up.

Eric Clapton's scales - when he comes off a high note and it's time for a refrain or a little bit of a rest, he peals off scales going downwards that are so good it's unbelievable.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

Playing pentatonic scales over orchestral music is not something I want to do or listen to.

Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Said in yet another way, discipline is to an athlete what scales are to a musician. Mastering the scales is what allows the musician to perform music. Mastering the skills of self discipline is what enables a person to become an accomplished elite athlete.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.