Differences Quotes

• I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Between
  • Points
  • Relating

• Programmes like the BES are what make the difference between a good university & one that is truly outstanding. I believe this programme will be invaluable for the future sustainability of Singapore and the region; perhaps even the world, if others follow our lead.

  

  Geh Min
  • Believe
  • Environment
  • Outstanding

• Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range of the novel, and you will find it is biography. The only difference between one example and the other is that sometimes it's a partial biography and sometimes it's a total biography. Clarissa, for example, is a partial biography of Clarissa and a partial biography of Lovelace. In other words, it doesn't follow Lovelace from when he is in the cradle, though it takes him to the grave.

  

  William Golding
  • Novel
  • Biographies
  • Cradle

• I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Stage
  • Musical
  • Momentum

• I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference.

  

  Karen Hawkins
  • Failing
  • Branches
  • Tables

• The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!

  

  William James
  • Art
  • Kind
  • Hair

• The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.

  

  Michael Musto
  • Impossible
  • Pedestal
  • Pausing

• Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

  

  Warren G. Bennis
  • Leadership
  • Organization
  • Management

• What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Dad
  • Pain
  • Drink

• What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Dog
  • Faithful

• I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Poor

• This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized … in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.

  

  Norman Lamm
  • Respect
  • Differences
  • Unity

• I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

  

  Nia Long
  • Young
  • Racism
  • Accepting

• The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to comprehend that there's a performance there. They look at it as something that's just been made by a computer but in a way the difference is that when you make a normal film - and I'm simplifying it here - you put on the make-up and you put the scenery in before you start shooting, but with this you still perform in the same way but then you put the make-up on after, along with the costumes and scenery.

  

  Ray Winstone
  • Computer
  • Performances
  • Shooting

• As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • People
  • Work
  • Technology

• All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Different
  • Science
  • Similarity

• Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Differences
  • Southerner
  • Northerners

• There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Differences

• The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

  

  George Gilder
  • Important
  • Humans
  • Facts

• Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Voice
  • Differences

• It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

  

  Wolfgang Kohler
  • Reality
  • Sometimes
  • Said

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