Quotes About Distinction

The said question of the said animal in its entirety comes down to knowing not whether the animal speaks but whether one can know what respond means. And how to distinguish a response from a reaction.

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.

Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

Distinguishing between the emotion and the conviction or judgment that triggers it is often fundamental to the solution to one's problem.

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

Aghion's conclusion is that we have to redesign fiscal systems so they distinguish clearly between the creation of value and the enjoyment of economic rents, even if, in practice, this distinction is not always easy to make.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

The line between good art and bad never seemed as clear as the one between a pie and an empty oven.

The clean language and distinction between output and outcome was first made clear to me in a talk by Robert Fabricant called "Behavior Is Our Medium".

you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.

We find ourselves contemplating at once the compositional surface on which motion occurs and the things that move on that compositional surface because imagining motion requires us to blur the distinction between figure and ground, as when passengers sitting in a stationary train feel themselves begin to fall through space when another train passes by.

The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day." He

The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual distinction is surely acceptable to God. But, as in the case of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac, the sacrifice itself is not always finally required. What is required is obedience.

34. "Four species of idols beset the human mind, to which (for distinction's sake) we have assigned names, calling the first Idols of the Tribe, the second Idols of the Den, the third Idols of the Market, the fourth Idols of the Theatre.

Submission to God's Will is the best companion; wisdom is the noblest heritage; theoretical and practical knowledge are the best signs of distinction; deep thinking will present the clearest picture of every problem.

there are two types of people in the world-those who matter to his story and those who don't.

The distinction between the world of commerce and that of culture quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.

You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush.

Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.

Popular and good and bad is not the same thing.

Celebrity culture is... it's not something that I'm attracted to. I guess I don't think of myself in that way, but potentially other people do. I feel I'm at the far periphery of that.

Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

One of the things that set us apart early on, as opposed to other animated shows, was the fact that 'Bojack' was continuous and serialized.