Differences Quotes - Page 26

• Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

  Eric Idle

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

  Bill Watterson

  Happiness, Being Happy, World

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fear

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.57, Lulu.com

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

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

  Voltaire

  Intelligent, Ideas, Mules

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.51, Voltaire

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• Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Careers, Making A Difference

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Motivation, Judgment

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.36, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• 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

  Thinking, Quality, Backwards

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• The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Anger, Men

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• Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Prayer, Wall, Past

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.

  Audre Lorde

  Real, Silence, World

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.41, Crossing Press

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• You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Life, Trust

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

  David Guterson

  Love Is, Making A Difference, World

  David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.109, A&C Black

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• There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.

  Nick Hornby

  Baby, Mug

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• For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion, Making A Difference, Purpose

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their donut experience. It's not great for your career to be known as the person who can spot the difference between six and seven donuts at a glance.

  Max Barry

  Monday, Morning, Careers

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• The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Political, Generations

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• People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

  Terry Goodkind

  Motivation, Lying, Stupid

  "Wizard's First Rule". Book by Terry Goodkind, 1994.

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• A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

  Joanne Harris

  Years, Medicine, Magic

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• It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Weed, Cutting

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• The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Helping, Given, Mark

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives.

  Elliot Perlman

  Mean, Views, Two

  "Seven Types of Ambiguity". Book by Elliot Perlman, 2003.

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• We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.

  Dan Chaon

  Being In Love, Acting, Like You

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.82, Ballantine Books

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• The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mirrors, People, Vampire

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk (p. 144), May 3, 2005.

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