Differences Quotes - Page 5

• I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

  Fiona Apple

  Believe, Thinking, Goal

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• Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

  Ivan Bunin

  Novelists, Behaviour, Deeds

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• The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Inspirational, Freedom, People

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• I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

  Storm Thorgerson

  Photography, Art, Real

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• I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Nature, Thinking, People

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• I believe when we look different and carry something different, people are going to see that and want it too.

  Britt Nicole

  Believe, Individual Differences, People

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• When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

  Ibn Hazm

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Health

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• One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

  Billy Collins

  Self, Poetry, Being Ignored

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• Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Education, Attitude

  "Lena Dunham: 'People called me fat and hideous, and I lived" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

  Michaela DePrince

  Flower, Fields, Poppies

  "Four Young Ballerinas Celebrate Dancers Of Color Who Inspire Them" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2017.

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• We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes

  Fujio Cho

  Average, People, Broken

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• There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.

  Jenny Saville

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Individual Differences, People, Being Different

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

  Mao Zedong

  Lost Friendship

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• I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Caring, Empathy

  Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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• It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, People

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• My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Relationship, Couple, Individual Differences

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.209, Penguin

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• Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

  Mark Twain

  God, Editors, Entrepreneur

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

  Karen Armstrong

  Love, Sympathy, God

  Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.212, Anchor

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• What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

  Clarence Jordan

  Wise, Money, Needs

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• The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Equality, Race

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• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Taste

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• ...to make the world safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong Women, Tyrants, Historical

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

  Christine Todd Whitman

  Fall, Thinking, Generosity

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• In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

  Horatius Bonar

  God, Christian, Adversity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 7), 1895.

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