Quotes About Distinction

The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

Donald Trump has a grasp on what's important and what's marginalia.

It is one thing to have quality and another to be a great player.

I want to retire, when it's all said and done, as one of the greats.

It's great to be compared to a great player like Tracy McGrady, but I think I'm my own type of player. I'm 6'10" and a bit bigger than he is as a player. I also think I'm a bit different and play a different position. He's more of a guard, and I can play all around through five.

People always talk about first-ballot Hall of Famer and all that stuff, but it doesn't really make a difference. Once you get in there, you're a Hall of Famer. It doesn't matter if you get in on the first, second or third ballot. It's the same thing.

It's just a great honor to even be associated with the Hall of Fame and get in. If I eventually do make it, it will be a great honor, and I don't care if it's the first or second time because it's an honor for anyone to make the Hall of Fame.

What's the difference between a human being and an animal?" "Intelligence, I suppose." Audrey looked at me for guidance. "We're smarter. Wouldn't you agree?" I nodded. "As long as we're writing the tests.

Unusually among European languages, English has distinct words for 'story' and 'history' rather than the same word for both: 'Was für eine Geschichte!' means 'What a story!' rather than 'an excellent history book', and une histoire can be tittle-tattle in the street as well as a work of historical scholarship. For Winston Churchill, there was never any distinction.

What is the use of being exquisite if you are not seen by the best judges?

Perhaps we don't always discriminate between sense and nonsense.

We like to make the distinction between immigrants we want and immigrants we don't want. They all share one thing, and that's the work ethic.

The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospitality. You need both things to thrive, but they are completely different.

Life can be tasted and transcended only when there is a distinction between the psychological and the existential.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Wanting to die (or 'suicidal ideation'as the experts would have it) goes hand in hand with the illness. It is a symptom of severe depression, not a character failing or moral flaw. Nor is it, truly, a desire to die so much as a fervent wish not to go on living. All depressives understand that distinction.

Your personality is your natural weapon against distraction, competition, and commoditization. The more value you add, the less you have to compete on price, and the less likely you are to become a commodity.

But aside from Willy's skill at learning another language which his father did not know enough to appreciate, his only distinction in schooling was mathematics. Numbers came easily to him. And it was not just simple mathematics but anything that was curious. Many nights in bed he pondered numbers.

He could distinguish and divideA hair 'twixt south and southwest side,On either which he would dispute,Confute, change hands, and still confute.

the baby must be either a boy or girl — this much, at any rate, was clear.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

To use C. S. Lewis's distinction, perhaps we could even say that for the evangelistic youth minister, it's about truth; for the bardic youth minister, it's about meaning. Both approaches are necessary and appropriate. But they are different and depend on the context.