Quotes About Distinction

Users want relevant content as advertising. As a result, the distinction between advertising and content is going away. All that matters to a user is relevancy.

If I go to a match it doesn't mean I want to buy the stadium or the club.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

And yet, though in history the movement to restore eros to our idea of human nature and the movement for political liberation are parts of the same vision, we must make a distinction between the libertine's idea of liberty, 'to do as one likes,' and a vision of human 'liberation.

Por qué me lo cuentas ahora? -Porque no quiero que olvides lo distintas que son nuestras circunstancias. Si mueres y yo vivo, no quedará nada para mí en el Distrito 12. Tú lo eres todo para mí -me dice-. Nunca volvería a ser feliz. [pp. 367]

The great men think, and you and I [also] think. But there is a difference.

I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that, every time I leverage my name, I want people to feel sure that it's going to be something good - so whether it be my movies, my perfume, my restaurant, my musical, it'll be good work, good food and good everything.

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

Memorizing the song and singing it are two different things.

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

One conceivable way to discriminate between a scientific intellectual and a literary intellectual is by considering that a scientific intellectual can usually recognize the writing of another but that the literary intellectual would not be able to tell the difference between lines jotted down by a scientist and those by a glib nonscientist.

All pieces of information are not equal in importance.

make a distinction between positive contingencies, and negative. Learn to distinguish between those human undertakings in which a lack of predictability has been extremely beneficial, and those where failure to understand the future has caused harm.

the difference between noise and signal. Noise is what you are supposed to ignore, signal what you need to heed.

it is easier for your brain to detect differences rather than absolutes

and the two need to be kept separate.

If my brain can tell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot. Such

He looks very authoritative—even more so now in his uniform of brass buttons and blue wool—but authority and reason are two different things.

YOU DON'T SMELL FIRE, I yelled. YOU SMELL SMOKE.

I have a special ring-system that must work before I will pick up my phone. I am not a snob: it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do-mostly with my time.

I was much struck how entirely vague and arbitrary is the distinction between species and varieties. ... But to discuss whether they are rightly called species or varieties, before any definition of these terms has been generally accepted, is vainly to beat the air.

On peut démontrer ainsi ni la stérilité ni la fécondité ne fournissent aucune distinction certaines entre les espèces et les variétés.

The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals

I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect (compared to animals or other living beings), only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference