Discrepancies Quotes

• It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.

  Gavin Schmidt

  Discrepancies Between, People, Interesting

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• In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.

  Douglas Adams

  Reality, Cases, Majors

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.223, Del Rey

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• The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.

  Jeremiah P. Ostriker

  Science, Years, Discrepancies Between

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• Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Leadership, Discrepancies Between, Agendas

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.106, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult - this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.

  Margaret Mead

  Strong, Sex, Children

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• What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Differences, People

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• Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Real, Men, Discrepancies Between

  William John Macquorn Rankine (1872). “A Manual of Applied Mechanics”, p.4

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• Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Faith, Men, Legends

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.46, Penguin

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• Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.

  Eileen Chang

  Memories, Reality, Discrepancies Between

  "Written on Water". Book by Eileen Chang, trans. Andrew F. Jones New York: Columbia University Press, 2. "Writing of One's Own", pp. 17 - 18, 2005.

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• I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.

  Amy Adams

  Shoes, High Heels, Legs

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• If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

  Christopher Rice

  Psychology, Needs, Bliss

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• If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Character, Hypocrite

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.350, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm not trying to give any definite answer. What I'm trying to prove is that we have enough gaps, enough discrepancies, enough simple falsifications to conclude that probably this history was an invention of a later time.

  Garry Kasparov

  Simple, Giving, Trying

  Interview With Timothy Taylor, timothytaylor.ca. 2001.

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• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  Carl Jung

  Sad, Discrepancies Between, Quality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Years, Discrepancies Between, Culture

  Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.iconeye.com. June 2004.

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• The world today is experiencing a profound and rapid socio-cultural transformation. But the changes do not occur at a uniform pace, and the discrepancies in the change process have differentiated the various countries and regions of our planet.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Country, Profound, Pace

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

  Douglas Adams

  Time, Past, Men

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.282, Pan Macmillan

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• My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, ‘Was I in the right place?’ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man. If the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, there’d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this m-therf—ker down!

  Chris Rock

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Chris Rock Talks Health Care Reform, Democratic Party’s Timidity". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2010.

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• Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

  Albert Bandura

  Discrepancies Between, Self, Tasks

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• Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

  Dalai Lama

  Discrepancies Between

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• Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled-whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others - to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Honesty, Opportunity, Talking

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• The prosecution responsible for the many discrepancies in their work must be made to answer for them, for Raffaele's sake, my sake and most especially for the sake of Meredith's family. Our hearts go out to them. No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity.

  Amanda Knox

  Heart, Adversity, Battle

  Amanda Knox Retrial: "Italian Court Rules To Re-Hear Murder Case" by Chris Rogers, hollywoodlife.com. March 26, 2013.

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• The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission. Nothing else has to be shown or even argued.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Twenties, Stories, Six

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• (An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Discrepancies Between, Unhappy Childhood, Preparation

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• It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. If there is not complete agreement between the results of one's work and experiment, one should not allow oneself to be too discouraged, because the discrepancy may well be due to minor features that are not properly taken into account and that will get cleared up with further developments of the theory.

  Paul Dirac

  Taken, Science, Views

  "The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature". Article republished from May 1963 issue of Scientific American, blogs.scientificamerican.com. June 25, 2010.

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