Similarity Quotes - Page 13

• You see, when you're in love, you look for similarities with your beloved. Since the root of all conflict is seeing differences between yourself and another, love truly seems to be the key to eliminating conflict.

  Doreen Virtue

  Love You, Keys, Roots

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• I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Thinking

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• People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes. This analogy is meant to suggest that each is unique - no two alike. This is quite patently not the case. People, even at the current rate of inflation - in fact, people especially at the current rate of inflation - are quite simply a dime a dozen. And, I hasten to add, their only similarity to snowflakes resides in their invariably and lamentable tendency to turn, after a few warm days, to slush.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Unique, Two, People

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.197, Vintage

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• Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.

  John D. MacDonald

  War, White, Differences

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• There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grieving, Research, Way

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• I'm not Deion Sanders. We're different people with different styles. People see similarities between me and him; that's fine. It's an honor to be mentioned in the same breath with him. But that's as far as I go with it.

  Champ Bailey

  People, Style, Honor

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• Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Kids, Differences, Diversity

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.53, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world.

  Dan Quayle

  Differences, Important, World

  Source: www.leadersmag.com

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• When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

  Tom Coburn

  Political, Drug, Term Limits

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

  Theodor Adorno

  Love Is, Ability, Fooled

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• One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.

  Theodore Levitt

  Differences, People, Focus

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• Comparing Isco to Zidane isn't ridiculous. He is very close to Zidane in terms of ability, they have a lot of similarities. Zidane is obviously in a better position to judge, and he said Isco isn't there yet but could come close in the future.

  Carlo Ancelotti

  Zidane, Judging, Ridiculous

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• In some domains it looks as though our identical twins reared apart are...just as similar as identical twins reared together. Now that's an amazing finding and I can assure you none of us would have expected that degree of similarity.

  Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.

  Together, Degrees, Looks

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• Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.

  Lori Perkins

  Writing, Winning, Play

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• I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

  Todd English

  Sports, Food, Cooking

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• The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

  Alfred Korzybski

  World, Maps, Territory

  "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics". Book by Alfred Korzybski, 1933.

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• There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

  Peter Shilton

  Sports, Pressure, Aspect

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