Distinctive Quotes

148 quotes by 142 authors

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. — Margaret Visser
Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our beings - in… — Piero Ferrucci
Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true.… — Karen Kain
Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a relatively small, primarily… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the… — Billy Graham
To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at… — Dorothy Draper
While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also express… — Witold Rybczynski
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather… — James Paul Gee
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. — Jonathan Dimbleby
There is no one way to render an idea. Letâ€™s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences… — Constance Hale
Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well, the distinctive advantage… — Donald A. Norman
You can't keep putting the same stuff on all these channels, or it's going to get annoying. We need to aim for 'distinctive ubiquity,â€™ so… — Mark Schaefer
We recorded Star Climbing over a three-year period between our studios, working on songs and lyrics until we felt like we had found the albums… — Stuart Price
For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your… — Fred Astaire
Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of… — Henri Matisse
Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different."… — Napoleon Hill
The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is… — B.F. Skinner
God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in… — Tim Hansel
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans — Chris Stringer

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