Quotes about differences
differences making-a-difference want
Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other. Andy Andrews
differences favors regulation
Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters. Adam Smith
differences focus making-a-difference
Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product. Adam Grant
differences facts instance
This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope. Ada Lovelace
differences self use
Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
differences years wife
My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference. Alejandro Jodorowsky
differences one-day normal
Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.
differences perfect people
If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it. Alfred Stieglitz
differences states observation
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge. Alfred Nobel
differences experience
The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience. Alfred North Whitehead
differences degrees kind
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree. Alfred Marshall
differences would-be excess
The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch. Alexander Alekhine
differences body
I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future. Alex Campbell
differences liberty facts
If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it. Aldous Huxley
differences america people
But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care. Aaron McGruder
differences tragedy awful
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else. Aaron Allston
differences important benefits
As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us. Abbas Kiarostami
differences comfort misery
I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery. Agatha Christie
differences surprise compliment
Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never. Jane Austen
differences skins bones
Contouring makes a huge difference in your bone structure! I don't do it every day, because when I'm not working, I like to keep my skin fresh. Jasmine Tookes
differences environmental making-a-difference
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference. Jared Diamond
differences history different
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves
differences bears earth
On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best. Jane Welsh Carlyle
differences religion making-a-difference
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. C. S. Lewis
differences sick brave
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.
differences making-a-difference revolution
One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution. Bryant H. McGill
differences action procedures
I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it. Cesar Chavez
differences determined gender
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing. Carol Gilligan
differences old-and-new information
There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks… Carl Shapiro
differences assessment way
[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness. Alain de Botton
differences despair stories
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
differences attention details
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. Charles R. Swindoll
differences chance origin-of-species
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species. Charles Darwin