Differences Quotes

• Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Feels

• Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

  

  Van Jones
  • Business
  • Political
  • Technology

• Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing in common except want of a spouse: but there is a great difference between a spouse-to-be and a spouse lost.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Men
  • Lost

• There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • She

• The Difference Between Dreams & Success Is, Dreams Need Effortless Sleep & Success Needs Sleepless Efforts

  

  Akon
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Effort

• There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y’know what I mean?

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • Mean
  • Differences
  • Performing

• I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !

  

  Mac Anderson
  • Thinking
  • Success
  • Failure

• The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents.

  

  Gilberto Gil
  • Important
  • Moving
  • Establishment

• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

  

  K. Anders Ericsson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Practice

• First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Health

• When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• ...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

  

  Aristotle
  • Understanding
  • Matter
  • Opposition

• What's the difference between Thom Yorke and a pizza? Pizza's not as cheesy and delicious as Thom Yorke.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Pizza
  • Cheesy
  • Delicious

• There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Time
  • Words
  • Listening

• I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Catholic
  • Differences
  • Adults

• In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.

  

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
  • Mathematics
  • Genes
  • Chromosomes

• The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Questions
  • Human Improvement
  • Human Characters

• I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Movie
  • Dumb
  • Stupidity

• The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Average
  • Performers

• One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Humans
  • States
  • Observation

• If you worry about making bogeys, it makes the game that much more difficult. You put more pressure on yourself without even noticing it. It makes a difference to take it easy when things aren't going right.

  

  Sergio Garcia
  • Worry
  • Difficult
  • Easy

• A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

  

  Alan Light
  • Differences
  • Rock Band
  • Similarities

• Look within,

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Teacher
  • Teaching
  • Differences

• The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • War
  • Politics
  • Drug

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