Quotes About Distinction

The critical first question for any lean transformation is: which activities create value and which are a form of waste? Once you understand this distinction, you can begin using lean techniques to drive out waste and increase the efficiency of the value-creating activities.

Ego formation can only proceed by way of distinction from the nonego and consciousness only emerge where it detaches itself from what is unconscious; and the individual only arrives at individuation when he marks himself off from the anonymous collective.

I'm not Firestar! I don't even look like him, in case you haven't noticed.

at the Serious Cybernetics Corporation it was important to make a distinction between Artificial General Intelligence and ordinary AI. AGI being the sort that was self-aware enough to pass the Turing test and ask difficult philosophical questions before going "Daisy-Daisy" and trying to wipe out humanity, while ordinary AI mainly tried to sell you books on Amazon.

Di setiap masyarakat, distingsi-distingsi kelas berpotongan dengan pelbagai sumbu distingsi dan identitas, namun hal ini bukan lantas berarti kita dapat mengabaikan eksistensi mereka. Anda tidak akan menemukan kelas-kelas kecuali Anda sungguh-sungguh mencarinya, menanyakan pertanyaan-pertanyaan dasar seperti "siapa memiliki apa, siapa berbuat apa, siapa mendapat apa, apa yang mereka lakukan dengan itu, apa yang mereka lakukan satu dengan yang lain?

Personal distinction is the only passport to the society of the great. Whether this distinction arise from fortune, family, or talent, is immaterial; but certain it is, to enter into high society, a man must either have blood, a million, or a genius.

Honors and awards are very interesting, and I truly accept them. I have very high regard for what they mean. What they mean is that they're pointing to the work.

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

The world is full of nice hotels, but it is not full of great hotels.

Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas City, Kansas. There's a difference.

let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

la simple y humilde diferencia entre lo apropiado y lo inapropiado en un momento concreto.

There's a difference between world-class fighters and club fighters. It's similar to the distinction between a Grammy Award nominee and a guy who sings in Holiday Inn cocktail lounges.

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.

I think too many people in Hollywood perhaps fail to make a distinction between the political side of Israel and the notion of the country. And they can be separate things.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

We're not going the photography route. I think there is a real distinction between photos and images, and Flickr is for photos, and Instagram is for photos. You wouldn't put a filter on a meme; you'd put a filter on top of a photo that came from your camera.