Differences Quotes

• The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

  

  Michael Tilson Thomas
  • Humans
  • motivation
  • Sadness

• Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Hate
  • Rip
  • Criticize

• Winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.

  

  Evangelista Torricelli
  • Winds
  • Temperature
  • Regions

• I wasn't terribly familiar. I had read some of the headlines but didn't quite understand difference between WikiLeaks...Edward Snowden. And then watching the documentary, working on the film, you got to see his personal journey through this and sort of understand more about what he went through.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Film
  • Journey
  • Familiar

• For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Genius
  • Greatness
  • Cases

• There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

  

  Suge Knight
  • Business
  • Way
  • Competition

• The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

  

  William C. Brown
  • Friends
  • Victory
  • Enemies

• To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • World
  • Careers
  • Impact

• It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.

  

  Ernest A. Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Believe
  • Happiness

• Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no difference in the applicability of the rule to them. Because the rule prevails, it includes all cases.

  

  William Whewell
  • True
  • Past
  • Being

• Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Activity
  • Alternatives

• The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.

  

  Nancy Etchemendy
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Differences

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

  

  Reggie Bush
  • Earth
  • Difference
  • Calling

• It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Differences
  • Damned

• We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'

  

  Eric Lander
  • Human
  • Standup
  • Signatures

• What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Impact
  • Activity
  • Quantum

• We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Differences
  • Passing
  • Fitting

• Whats the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.

  

  Will Hermes
  • Passion
  • Drug
  • Female

• The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Facts
  • Excellence
  • Performers

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

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Different
  • Science
  • Similarity

• I think personal actions definitely matter. I think collectively they can make a big difference. But I also think that people don't live in a vacuum.

  

  Chip Giller
  • Action
  • Matter
  • Vacuums

• Germany must continue to champion the world's biggest free single market, and under its leadership, the EU can overcome its internal differences.

  

  Anthony Glees
  • Differences
  • Champion
  • Market

• The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Problem
  • Speak
  • Drug

• Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Voting
  • Awful
  • Bother

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