Quotes about differences
differences effort achievement
William J. Clinton Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
differences done sometimes
William J. Clinton Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.
differences ideas truth-is
William James True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
differences design special
William James We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
differences degrees different
William James There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
differences making-a-difference done
William James Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
differences making-a-difference way
Werner Erhard In this conversation we discover another possibility: living in a way, now, moment to moment, that makes a difference to life. We discover that as human beings we can live in a possibility instead of in what we have inherited, that instead of just being a human being because we were born that way, we can declare the possibility of being for human beings. This is the work of transformation: bringing forth a breakthrough in the possibility of being human.
differences nazi nationalism
Samuel Fuller There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.
differences impact people
Samuel J. Palmisano If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
differences mad spouse
Salvador Dali There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
differences mad facts
Salvador Dali The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
differences trying stories
Salman Rushdie The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
differences tree littles
Wangari Maathai It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
differences dimes politics
Virgil Goode There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.
differences age who-we-are
W. H. Auden Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.
differences people edmonton
Wayne Gretzky The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
differences making-a-difference world
Wayne Dyer If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd.
differences knowing bigs
Robyn And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.
differences gloves needs
Roberto Clemente There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.
differences humanity democracy
Roberto Unger In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
differences world patterns
Robert M. Pirsig The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences.
differences people understanding
Wesley Clark Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.
differences together bases
Virginia Satir We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.
differences said shows
Vita Sackville-West Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
differences easy bigs
Sarah Dessen Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.
differences failing
Sarah Dessen You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.
differences adam bigs
Sarah Dessen I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.
differences broken silence
Sarah Dessen The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel to quiet when you're with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.
differences together stories
Sarah Dessen Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life. Like words build a story, and what had Ted said? One word can change the entire world.
differences way understood
Sarah Dessen Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.
differences wish three
Sarah Dessen Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.
differences events made
Sarah Dessen Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.