Disparate Quotes
68 quotes by 64 authors
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Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We…
— Pat Summitt
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Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered…
— Robert Winston
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Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic front. I would…
— Vladimir Putin
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I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other.…
— Jenji Kohan
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I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to…
— Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
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We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems,…
— Marjorie Garber
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If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand…
— Deepak Chopra
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I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of…
— Martin Mull
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still…
— Jared Diamond
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Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.
— David Pilbeam
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The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a striking…
— Terryl L. Givens
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Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.
— Trevor Dunn
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What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?…
— Tony Hoare
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The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form…
— Joshua Foer
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It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant…
— Steve Aylett
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Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain.…
— Carolyn Kizer
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Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five…
— James Richardson
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Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
— Rebecca Solnit
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Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
— Karl Marx
Who Wrote These Disparate Quotes
64 authors contributed a total of 68 Disparate Quotes, led by these top contributors: