Difference Quotes

• In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal reaction of art against itself? … No ordinary object insists on being taken for an ordinary thing, but a work that does so betrays itself by this very effort. The function of art in such a case is to reproduce the difference of art. But the mere fact that art seeks to cancel this difference and fails in its effort to do so perhaps says more about art than could any excuse or critique.

  

  Niklas Luhmann
  • Art
  • Function
  • Reproduce

• Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Life
  • Difference
  • Adversity

• The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Beauty
  • Human Beings
  • Coaching

• After an incompletion, you can probably tell the difference.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Difference
  • Incompletion

• I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.'

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Money
  • Flying
  • Flight

• 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

• 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

• I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy and realistic goals. I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• 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 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

• A good video can make all the difference.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Difference
  • Video

• 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

• The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Actor
  • Difference
  • Painter

• We got a lot of loose balls and tipped rebounds. Our big guys did a good job down low. That ... proved to be the difference in the game.

  

  Austin Ainge
  • Game
  • Difference
  • Balls

• I think that the celebrity is a really important thing, because we have the voice that's recognizable, that can educate people to make a difference and empower them to make a difference, and to also get things in motion with the people in charge that can effect change.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • People
  • Important
  • Voice

• 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

• The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Work
  • Different
  • Character

• 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

• How many soaps does P&G make? In a sense, they're all the same. Can you tell me the difference between trading soybeans, cotton and rubber? They're all soaps to us.

  

  Whitney MacMillan
  • Same
  • Make
  • Cotton

• A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Sunset
  • Poetical

• Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Remember
  • Difference
  • Slow Down

• 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

• Anyone who has crossed from the district of Bolkhov into that of Zhizdra will probably have been struck by the sharp difference between the natives of the provinces of Orel and Kaluga.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Difference
  • District
  • Provinces

• Singing harmony is not the same as singing a part in a choral group, where you know you're going to have to hit this note and then that note. There are nuances that change every day. Maybe today you have a slight cold or voice fatigue, or you've done something and there's a slight difference in your breathing.

  

  Phil Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Change
  • Singing
  • Harmony

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