Scale Quotes

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

That’s one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back.

The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.

Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

There are not a lot of paths through the woods for someone who sings, plays the cello, and wants to tour on a human scale and create change in the world. I’m on my own path. It’s pretty awesome.

I can’t stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.