Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Abbott

Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.

Simone Elkeles

[about her offer of a Swedish massage] Alex: You're not Swedish. Brittany: Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.

Simon Sinek

There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

Simon Sinek

There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.

Simon Sinek

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

Thomas Merton

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

Tony Dungy

When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference

Tony Dungy

If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high.

Tom Waits

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

Steven Erikson

I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

Steve Martin

After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'

Stephen Harper

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

Sigmund Freud

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Sigmund Freud

I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.

Sergey Lavrov

We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion.

Richard Branson

Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.

Richard Branson

There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives.

Richard Branson

If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well

Richard Branson

Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.

Richard Branson

Global warming is another big area that we need to get on top of. [And] diseases in Africa, which we're also working on and seeing if we can make a difference on. And there are lots of issues that governments seem to be blind about.

Richard Branson

The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances.

Richard Branson

Happiness doesn't come from making a fortune and owning lots of possessions. 'Stuff' doesn't bring happiness. Family, friends, good health and the satisfaction that comes from making a positive difference are what really matter.

Richard Branson

What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

Richard Branson

Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better.

Thucydides

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.

Steven Rattner

As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

Steven Soderbergh

There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.

Reggie Bush

This is my calling, this is why I was put on this earth-to make a difference in people's lives.

Toni Morrison

Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Toni Morrison

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Veronica Roth

I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.

Robert Fripp

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

Robert Fulghum

And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.