Difference Quotes

• You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Brains
  • Lovable
  • Hateable

• I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• There’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and you can’t do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Running
  • Difference
  • Predicament

• It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

  

  Saskia de Brauw
  • Femininity
  • Masculinity
  • Boyish

• The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.

  

  Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains
  • Anymore
  • Couches
  • Don't sleep

• You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is sensing the edge, the unclear, what you don't recognize, but it is there, the bodily discomfort that the problem makes, which has meaning; it has its own peculiar quality, implicity, it is complex, it has in it everything that relates to that problem, but not in a way you can say.

  

  Eugene Gendlin
  • Problem
  • Recognize
  • Relates

• Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Mind
  • Respect
  • Vision

• I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Art
  • Artist

• In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference.

  

  Ben Wicks
  • Golf
  • Difference

• I as a Muslim believe deeply in the differences that are within Islam. But I also take seriously the idea that we have to come to know one another.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Believe
  • Idea
  • Muslim

• If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

  

  Damian Kulash OK Go
  • Powerful
  • Fans
  • Something

• I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Songs

• Knowing that you're not alone really does make all the difference in the world.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • World
  • Difference
  • Knowing

• A good video can make all the difference.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Difference
  • Video

• There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Alone

• That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Ends
  • Means
  • Teachers

• For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.

  

  Addison Wiggin
  • Difference
  • Pay
  • Madoff

• That was a game changer right there, that was a huge difference for us.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Game
  • Difference

• No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Human
  • Difference
  • Clone

• When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about ten years ago, was moving from a notion of empowering women to actually looking at where you can make the most difference, and it's in a girl's life.

  

  Kathy Calvin
  • Moving
  • Countries
  • Democracies

• But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Qualities
  • Merit
  • Polished

• You can do a movie for Disney or not. People will still ask you inappropriate questions. So in order to answer it, do I feel like there's a difference in promoting it? Apparently not.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Movie
  • Disney
  • Promoting

• There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Opportunity
  • Opinion
  • Difference

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