Differences Quotes

• It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

  

  Richard Meier
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Differences

• Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction of the difference proper to every beginning, in order to pursue without discontinuity the endless search for origin.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • History
  • Tradition
  • Phenomena

• We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Differences
  • Policy
  • American Politics

• Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.

  

  Theophrastus
  • Men
  • Understanding
  • Animal

• I think one third of my work is with first-time directors because I think I should, you know? Really, the difference between a first-time director and a second- or third-time director - I mean there's no director who makes enough movies anyway - but if they're talented, they have it. And there is no movie that is perfect.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • Thinking
  • Perfect
  • Mean

• The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

  

  Mike Lee
  • Party
  • Movement
  • Recognizing

• In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

  

  Tom Heinsohn
  • Team
  • Basketball
  • Games

• I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions, do certain biological differences - and they're not necessary ones, given the anomalous state of bodies in the world - become the salient characteristics of sex.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Sex
  • Differences
  • Conditions

• There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Brother
  • Years
  • Differences

• In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.

  

  Mike Krzyzewski
  • Believe
  • Failure
  • Employee

• To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Strong

• The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is causing such hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician and mathematical models whose results change drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily selected variables.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Evidence
  • Politician
  • Painful

• Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.

  

  Misha Collins
  • Kindness
  • Profound
  • Differences

• The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

  

  Woodrow Wilson
  • Strong
  • Giving
  • Defeat

• We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.

  

  Georgie Anne Geyer
  • Change
  • Diversity
  • Differences

• If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Dying
  • Psychedelic
  • Pun

• I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.

  

  Mickey Rivers
  • Differences
  • Florida
  • Climax

• The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Laughter

• Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!

  

  Judy Davis
  • World
  • Dream
  • Differences

• The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

  

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  • Expectations
  • Concerned
  • Outcomes

• The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • People
  • Action
  • Government

• If anyone has the opportunity to work with that woman, jump at it. She is the most generous, most giving director I have ever worked with in my entire life. She is classy. She speaks a dozen difference languages.

  

  Tituss Burgess
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Language

• 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

• Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.

  

  Mukesh Ambani
  • Successful
  • Differences
  • Making

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