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Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he… — Malcolm Gladwell
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic;… — Bertrand Russell
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. — H.G. Wells
It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes.… — Raymond Carver
Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love… — Josef Pieper
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it… — Saint Augustine
The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. — Martin Amis
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and… — Sydney J. Harris
For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as… — Fernando Pessoa
A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes… — James A. Owen
I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes… — Lisa Kleypas
The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe… — James Robertson
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for… — Peter Drucker
The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his… — Rudolf Arnheim
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. — Max Born
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. — Edward Hallett Carr
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan.… — Joseph Brodsky
All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing… — Roger Staubach
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things… — Roberta Smith
It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how… — Drew Gilpin Faust

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