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Quotes About Differentiation

I want to be gone out of myself, and you to be lost to yourself, so we are found different.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY MACS Setting Apple Apart
~ Walter Isaacson
Nothing is more important than anything else. The child collecting seashells is not doing something more right or wrong than the President of General Motors making a major corporate decision. They are different. Nothing more!
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Mine is far from an original conclusion, but in recent decades it has not been fashionable, so I should state the argument explicitly: The Greeks laid the foundation, but it was the transmutation of that foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and differentiated European accomplishment from that of all other cultures around the world.[24]
~ Charles Murray
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another
~ H. L. Mencken
Separateness" does not mean emotional distance, which is simply one means of managing anxiety or emotional intensity. Rather, separateness refers to the preservation of the "I" within the "we" - the ability to acknowledge and respect differences and to achieve authenticity within the context of connectedness.
~ Harriet Lerner
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
~ HARRY BLACKMUN
The thing is, it's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. – JONY IVE
~ Leander Kahney
The sense of differentiation is so acute in Yiddish that a word like, say, paskudnyak has no peer in any language I know for the vocal delineation of a nasty character. And Yiddish coins new names with ease for new personality types: a nudnik is a pest; a phudnik is a nudnik with a Ph.D.
~ Leo Rosten
I'm not strange to myself, but I realize that I contrast with others fairly sharply.
~ Jane Smiley
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
~ Michael Porter
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.
~ Marion Woodman
You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.
~ Bobby Womack
If you run a business that isn't cutting edge or doesn't naturally stick out of the crowd, it's your job to be different and get attention.
~ Ryan Holiday
The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there's no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.
~ Angus Young
As goods become more standardized - and mass production has that effect, standardizing product - the distinguishing factor between one store and another is going to be how skillful stores are in satisfying customers and making it a pleasant experience instead of a hostile experience.
~ Stanley Marcus
Our ability to create that one-on-one engagement with a customer is a point of differentiation and a strategic advantage for us.
~ Mindy Grossman
A veces también puedes convertir algo del montón en un producto estrella inventando una categoría nueva.
~ Timothy Ferriss
En qué es mejor este producto nuevo al de la competencia?», sino «¿primero en qué?». En otras palabras: «¿En qué categoría es primero este producto?».
~ Timothy Ferriss
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?
~ Timothy Ferriss
Part of knowing who you are is knowing who you're not.
~ Timothy Ferriss
When you're the first in a new category, promote the category. In essence, you have no competition. DEC told its prospects why they ought to buy a minicomputer, not a DEC minicomputer. In
~ Timothy Ferriss