Quotes About Differentiation

But if, to avoid the taint of power, you attempt to treat everyone equally and fairly, you will confront the problem that some people do certain things better than others. Treating everyone equally means ignoring their differences, elevating the less skillful and suppressing those who excel. Again, many of those who behave this way are actually deploying another power strategy, redistributing people's rewards in a way that they determine.

The Black Sheep. The herd shuns the black sheep, uncertain whether or not it belongs with them. So it straggles behind, or wanders away from the herd, where it is cornered by wolves and promptly devoured. Stay with the herd—there is safety in numbers. Keep your differences in your thoughts and not in your fleece.

We just began to separate from the crowd.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

Quality is a nice thing to have, but brands are not built by quality alone.

When you launch a new product, the first question to ask yourself is not 'How is this new product better than the competition?' but 'First what?' In other words, what category is this new product first in?

Do you derive your identity by comparing yourself with me? This is maya, a necessary delusion without which society cannot function. It can uplift you with inspiration, depress you with jealousy or grant you peace by revealing how different you are from me.

This little pile of shit, heaped here before my door, is mine, and I challenge any to malign its form. This little heap is my thing, my badge, a tangible sign of that which distinguishes me from, or likens me to, my neighbor. It is also what distinguishes him from me. His heap will never be mine. Whether he be friend or foe, this alone will allow me to recognize if we are alike: neat, clean, negligent, disgusting, or obviously rotten.

Violet es oxígeno, carbono, hidrógeno, nitrógeno, calcio y fósforo. Los seis elementos de los que todos estamos compuestos, aunque no puedo evitar pensar que es algo más que eso, que posee otros elementos de los que nadie ha oído hablar y que la diferencian de todos los demás.

Apparently there is a python magazine that is about computers, and a python magazine that's about really big snakes and if you get one you don't really want the other.

Clothes are the only thing that separates us from animals," my mother said. "Clothes and a sense of shame.

Romans 7:21, and it distinguishes believers from unbelievers who lie serenely content in their darkness.

there is a distinction between understanding and sympathizing.

Even to begin to understand the problem of faith one must differentiate between rational and irrational faith.

Even to begin to understand the problem of faith one must differentiate between rational and irrational faith. By irrational faith I understand the belief (in a person or an idea) which is based on one's submission to irrational authority. In contrast, rational faith is a conviction which is rooted in one's own experience of thought or feeling.

Our problem is to discover a principle of differentiation and yet relationship lucid enough to justify and to purify both scientific and philosophical knowledge by accepting their mutual independence.

Couples therapist Michele Scheinkman emphasizes how important it is to hold a dual perspective that encompasses the differentiated experiences of the couple, something they are unable to do for themselves at this time.

What's the delimiter between pyramid and ziggurat?

Tully Dawson made himself new to the world, and ripe for the glories of that summer, by showing he was unlike his father.

When products and services become largely indistinguishable from each other, all there is by the way of competitive advantage is time.

When products and services become largely indistinguishable from each other, all there is by the way of competitive advantage is time. And that's where the second critical development of the eighties comes in—e-mail.

Victory should look thus: the defeated are compelled to buy goods manufactured by the victors. Why, they do it willingly, because the victors' goods are better and cheaper. The victors' currency is stronger than the currency of the defeated, and the vanquished trust it much more than their own. Do you understand me, Baron Fitz-Oesterlen? Are you beginning slowly to differentiate the victors from the vanquished? Do you comprehend whom woe actually betides?

Find what you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life, that's true. But also always try to fill a niche. What can you try to do that is different?