Quotes About Distinction

I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.

Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction.

People may not know what tier of government has competence over which policy area but they do draw a distinction between the local and the national.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

I have to do so much to distinguish myself.

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

It happened on 'Laguna Beach' where you don't know what's real and fake, and I saw cast members who couldn't distinguish what was real and what was fake anymore. It was kind of scary to see, so I kept them very separate so that I didn't go crazy.

I think fame comes from actually doing something big with your career.

A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

Definitely not a Gertrude.

I know that if everyone is a hero, then no one truly is. I concede the term is thrown around far too casually.

Vague statements are interchangeable.

Less is more, you know? You're attempting too much. Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces.

When mediocrity is common, create masterwork.

39. There are four classes of idols that beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names, calling the first class idols of the tribe; the second, idols of the cave; the third, idols of the market place; the fourth, idols of the theater.

Particularly during one's youth, it is difficult to distinguish trivia from what is worthy.

It will be one of my purposes, in later arguments, to show that there is indeed an aspect of 'genuine understanding' that cannot be properly simulated in any computational way whatever. Consequently, there must indeed be a distinction between genuine intelligence and any attempt at a proper computational simulation of it.

The common law of England is proof that there is a real distinction between legitimate and illegitimate power, that power can exist without oppression, and that authority is a living force in human conduct. English law, I discovered, is the answer to Foucault.

Were I a writer, and dead, how I would love it if my life, through the pains of some friendly and detached biographer, were to reduce itself to a few details, a few preferences, a few inflections, let us say: to biographemes whose distinction and mobility might go beyond any fate and come to touch, like Epicurean atoms, some future body, destined to the same dispersion.

Harriman was a very different type from Pierpont.

The forces that govern our experience, electromagnetism and gravity, are blind to the distinction between left and right. No process moderated by either force can turn something such as your right hand into its mirror image. I cannot