Differences Quotes · Page 84

Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.

— Richard Branson

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

— Alice Mattison

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

— Tug McGraw

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? -…

— Robin Hobb

Our lives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we do with conflict that makes the…

— Thomas Crum

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

— Marc Andreessen

What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly…

— Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

— John Shirley

There's a difference between sexy and hyper-sexy. The way I have drawn Vampirella, she's definitely sexy, I designed the costume. But her…

— Trina Robbins

Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we…

— Richard Hamming

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference…

— Joseph Parker

When you encourage others, you, in the process, are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement…

— Zig Ziglar

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the…

— Michael J. Fox

“Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land.…

— Bruno Dumont

All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody ... The same blood flows through us all, the…

— Neem Karoli Baba

The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

The difference between fear and panic is knowing what to do. If you have a reliable, effective solution then fear is an…

— Marc MacYoung

Believe in your dreams. Believe in today. Believe that you are loved. Believe that you make a difference. Believe we can build…

— Kobi Yamada

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from…

— Idries Shah

I think the problem is these basic sort of human values from our - from the beginning, from birth, are not sort…

— Dalai Lama

I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never…

— Herta Muller

You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the…

— Eckhart Tolle

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because…

— Bill Vaughan

Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person…

— Mary Kay Ash

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

— Swami Vivekananda

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not…

— Evander Holyfield

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it…

— O. Henry

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at…

— George Takei

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we…

— Bob Hope

Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.

— Kris Kristofferson

FendiMan' is a word I created. It represents a fearless spirit that respects differences.

— Jackson Wang

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

— Dov Davidoff

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

— Erwin Rommel

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

— Mark Thomas

The differences between Rand Paul and millennials are vast - not just on economics, but on social issues that matter to young…

— Eric Swalwell

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

— Oscar Wilde

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite…

— Ellen Glasgow