Quotes about differences
differences decision tests
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization. George Soros
differences life-and-death steel
He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death. George R. R. Martin
differences mirrors age
I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now. George Carlin
differences making-a-difference today
You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference. Gene Simmons
differences enemy wicked
...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. Frederick Douglass
differences black painting
There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious. Frank Stella
differences soul
Nature is the difference between the soul and God. Fernando Pessoa
differences people republic
We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death. Ferdinand Marcos
differences special language
The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences. Ferdinand de Saussure
differences ideas sound
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
differences crow pieces
While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach. Felix Frankfurter
differences effort records
Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference. Faye Dunaway
differences accepting willing
We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans. Faran Tahir
differences diversity desert
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and Policy, which is the most immersed ... , yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method. Francis Bacon
differences important actors
But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I dont want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So thats a big difference. Eriq La Salle
differences serious unexpected
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us. Florida Scott-Maxwell
differences catching social-change
There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist. Florynce Kennedy
differences cooking avant-garde
In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference. Ferran Adria
differences astrology giving
The vast difference between astrology and other sciences, if I may put it thus, is that astrology deals not with facts but with profundities. The solid ground on which the scientist pretends to rest gives way, in astrology, to imponderables. Henry Miller
differences good-woman influence
We frequently find that the influence of good women is underrated. It is an influence that is often subtle but yet has tremendous consequences. One woman can make a great difference for a whole nation. James E. Faust
differences detours stuff
It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference. Jarvis Cocker
differences stories bigs
But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story. Errol Morris
differences people world
We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have Ernest Gaines
differences perspective opponents
It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true. Erin Morgenstern
differences people champion
When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions. Evander Holyfield
differences people important
I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it to be something that was important...something that would make a difference in people's lives or leave an imprint in history. Evangeline Lilly
differences clothes awake
There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes Mindy Kaling
differences cynical
I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference. Kurt Russell
differences the-end-of-the-day libertarian
I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.
differences
The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something. Harry Styles
differences long mutation
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today. Fred Hoyle
differences atmosphere world
There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it. Fred Rogers
differences vermont enormous
Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.