Small Differences Quotes

• We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Peace, Women

  Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Winning, Differences, Small Wins

  "Building a winning boardroom team". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.

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• Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Winning

  Twitter post from Jan 01, 2015

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Differences, Finals

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

  Luis Bunuel

  Art, Powerful, Responsibility

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• Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

  Sigmund Freud

  Differences, Groups, Prejudice

  Moses and Monotheism ch. 3, pt. 1 (1938)

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• It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the later. Prediction becomes impossible, and we have the fortuitous phenomena.

  Henri Poincare

  Errors, Differences, Finals

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• The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

  Aristotle

  Education, Teaching, Differences

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• A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we are indeed not alone, what could cause a new Copernican revolution, a quantum leap in our thinking and perspective. We would finally realize that we are one mankind and all the small differences which separate humans from each other today-nationality, race, religion-would disappear. Only together can mankind explore the universe, our true home and destiny.

  Michael Hesemann

  Home, Destiny, Thinking

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• I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Together on the path of love, we can try to make a small difference in someone's life. What else is there to do?

  Chan Khong

  Love, Differences, Trying

  Chan Khong, Sister (2008). “Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War: Easyread Edition”, p.431, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Life, Wisdom, Stars

  "Socialism in One Galaxy?" by Nicole Colson, socialistworker.org. September 15, 2016.

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• When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

  Shinya Yamanaka

  Daughter, Mother, Differences

  "Risk Taking Is in His Genes". Interview with Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2007.

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• I love making people smile. I get so much energy through interacting and feeling like I've made a difference, a small difference.

  Debbi Fields

  Differences, People, Feelings

  "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay aside the small differences and pursue the common objective.

  Watchman Nee

  Attitude, Differences, Self

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.55, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Differences, Perception

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• It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

  Peter Høeg

  Karma, Lying, Differences

  Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.59, Random House

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• No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Keys, Order

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

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• In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

  Aristotle

  Character, Men, Differences

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1103b,

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• The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I didn’t think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Thinking, Differences, Essentials

  "Henri Cartier-Bresson: 'There Are No Maybes'". Interview with Sheila Turner-Seed, lens.blogs.nytimes.com. 1971.

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• The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Differences, Levels, Derivatives

  "Something Borrowed". www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2004.

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