Differences Quotes

• I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Education
  • inspirational

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Difference is the beginning of synergy.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Differences
  • Synergy

• There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Compassion
  • Influence

• 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 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

• When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Sometimes
  • 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

• 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

• There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • May
  • Giving
  • Generous

• 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

• People get stigmatised for their bodies and for their differences. Then those people become very vulnerable.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • People
  • Differences
  • Bodies

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

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Teacher
  • Differences
  • Classroom

• Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Believe
  • Civilization
  • Ideology

• 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

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

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Want
  • Shows
  • Differences

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

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Speak

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

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Differences

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