Quotes About Distinction

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

Identify three obvious differences between you and your patient. A good intellectual way to distance yourself from a patient's emotions and pain after a session is to focus on three clear differences between you. For example, I'm a woman, and he's a man. She's depressed, but I'm not. I'm a vegan, and he eats meat. This lets you appreciate what's you and what's the patient, a boundary that helps prevent you from absorbing unwanted energy.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

Colonial ministers, despite their vast public power, were not allowed to hold public office, a distinction that kept Massachusetts from being a theocracy.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

Yo no sé muy bien qué sea amor, pero de lo que sí estoy convencido es de que es algo muy distinto al sexo y a la reproducción, con los que lo confunde mi vecino. El amor es puro; el sexo entretenido y sano; y la reproducción, criminal.

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.

There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity.

Awesome is the word one uses for Eleanor Roosevelt, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and pitching a no-hit no-run ballgame. Not available for the crappy cheese quesadilla you had this afternoon, nor for anybody who Dances with the Stars. With or without a wooden leg.)

Yet any distinction between literature and life is misleading. Literature for me is not merely the best part of life; it is itself the form of life, which has no other form.

Young ladies sketched, did watercolors, wrote short paragraphs of imaginative prose. To Alexandra, there was a distinct and distasteful difference between one who paints and a painter, one who writes and a writer.

Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. Go figure. For me, I might have the leisure to be bored, but not to grow tired of something. Most people can't distinguish between the two.

The key distinction between a traditional and a customer-cultivating company is that one is organized to push products and brands whereas the other is designed to serve customers and customer segments.

I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy.

The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie.

We have a long and proud tradition as a nation of investing in our human capital so that we can build a thriving middle class. You look at the G.I. Bill after the war - it was an investment in our service members who had served this nation with distinction.

I never made a distinction, really, between music and sound. Let me explain what I mean by that. I grew up near to a train station, and the sound of the trains became a very important part of my world. It was a very musical sound to me.

We need to make a very clear distinction between what is in our ego's self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest; it is from mistaking one for the other that all our suffering comes.

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

in the general throng, many a fool receives decorations and titles.

But we need to make a distinction: we can love this or that, but we cannot "form a marriage bond" unless it is with our own selves.

I'm not a gentleman, I'm a nobleman, a distinction I suspect you understand very well.