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Quotes About Differentiation

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
~ Seth Godin
Judge them not equally.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
the ancient ordinance which distinguished the various classes and professions by the colours in their dress. A King or Queen might wear seven colours; a poet or Ollam six; a chieftain five; an army leader four; a land-owner three; a rent-payer two; a serf one colour only. Tighernmas
~ Seumas MacManus
For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
~ Jon Scieszka
I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.
~ Renny Harlin
As she said, our talents made us different from other people, but not strange.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
What sets a professional nose apart from an everyday nose is not so much its sensitivity to the many aromas in a food or drink, but the ability to tease them apart and identify them.
~ Mary Roach
To distinguish between the curved and the straight. —Horace (ca. 30 B.C.)
~ Matthew Restall
The class's favorite book was Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading. In this novel, Nabokov differentiates Cincinnatus C., his imaginative and lonely hero, from those around him through his originality in a society where uniformity is not only the norm but also the law.
~ Azar Nafisi
Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
How can we send a signal over the phone, when the customer calls with a question, that we are different than the other companies, and they are going to feel more welcome and at home with us? How do we create a relationship right there at the point of that call? What
~ Steve Chandler
Trend-setters are members of upper classes who adopt the styles of lower classes to differentiate themselves from middle classes, who wouldn't be caught dead in lower-class styles because they're the ones in danger of being mistaken for them.
~ Steven Pinker
You can only really understand something when you know what it is not.
~ Steven Pinker
The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs , and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to settle for a non-proof once you've really familiarized yourself with the genuine article.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
El talento tiene la capacidad de transformar un problema natural en una virtud que te diferencia de los demás.
~ Jorge Valdano
El mediocre aspira a. confundirse en los que le rodean; el original tiende a diferenciarse de ellos.
~ José Ingenieros
Individualmente considerada, la mediocridad podrá definirse como una ausencia de características personales que permitan distinguir al individuo en su sociedad. Ésta
~ José Ingenieros
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
~ Joseph Addison
that envy and a sense of injustice are not always that easily distinguished, let alone extricated, one from the other.
~ Joseph Epstein
There are a variety of traits that set humans apart from our closest primate relatives. The "big four" are language, rationality, culture, and morality (or in more precise terms, "syntacticized language," "domain-general intelligence," "cumulative cultural inheritance," and "ultrasociality").
~ Joseph Heath
The act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared at in a class apart. One does not talk to a monkey in a zoo, or to a freak in a sideshow— one only stares.
~ Erving Goffman
With every new social network, smartphone feature, and digital diversion, innovation-driven consumer companies must constantly redefine their categories and, in some cases, redefine themselves to ensure they remain both relevant and differentiated in the minds of consumers.
~ Dinesh Paliwal