Differences Quotes

• The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Differences
  • Fingers
  • Marathon

• The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Artist
  • Goal
  • Leader

• 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

• Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

  

  Tony Evans
  • God
  • Greatness
  • Understood

• Bernard Leach was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men Leach and Shoji Hamada.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Approach
  • Critical
  • Pot

• The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Believe
  • Differences

• I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Ideas
  • Differences
  • Faces

• You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Different
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company.

  

  Walter Wright
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Running

• People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

  

  Miles D. White
  • Sometimes
  • Company
  • Making

• What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?

  

  Michel Platini
  • Differences

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

  

  Nancy Etchemendy
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Differences

• I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Want
  • Shows
  • Differences

• We never had a catalogue; we never said we were going to duplicate these pots this year and next year and the year after that and so forth. We did make many pots which were repeated, but we allowed them to change and to grow as we changed and grew, and I think that was the big difference. And that's all right; we were working for ourselves. We didn't have anybody we had to pay.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Changed
  • Bigs
  • Grows

• I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Differences

• If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Differences
  • Painful

• The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Trying
  • Differences
  • Succeed

• It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Teacher
  • Differences
  • Classroom

• 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.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Said
  • Bigs
  • Whole

• I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Character
  • History
  • Built

• No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Play
  • Speak
  • Force

• There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Speak

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