the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Entrepreneur, if your distinction isn't angering the mediocre, it's actually mediocre.” — Onyi Anyado Copy Share Image
There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make. — Elliot S. Maggin Copy Share Image
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the… — Hans Morgenthau Copy Share Image
In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better. — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things,… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
