Quotes About Distinction

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Yes, there's a lot I have learned about flowers. They're just like people. Put too many together and they get on each other's nerves and start to wilt. Mix some kinds and you get what appears to be a dreadful form of class distinction.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

If a conceptual distinction is to be made, the machinery for making it ought to show itself in language. If a distinction cannot be made in language, it cannot be made conceptually.

Each time a drop of water forms under the spout of a tap, it means that one can wrench something away from the nameless mass.

How arbitrary, this distinction of time. How like humans to have to cut the infinite down to something they could believe they controlled.

No eres como Wrath," dejó escapar ella. "Nadie es como Wrath.

because crime, like illness and accidents, didn't recognize any distinction between weekdays and weekends.

I don't want to be in the same weight division where it's almost looking like who's the better fighter? Who's the better twin?

I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

but I am prepared to go any distance to see the face of that man who can really make a distinction between the sin and the sinner. It is easy to say so.

Star performers are very likely to attract sponsors, and loyal performers are very likely to keep them. But if they fail to distinguish themselves, these loyal performers run the risk of becoming permanent seconds, lieutenants who never make captain. To position themselves for the top job, protégés must therefore contribute something the leader prizes but may intrinsically lack:

If you want to fly with the eagles, don't swim with the ducks!

A body is a body." Viscarro shrugged his bony shoulders. "Dead, alive, alive, dead. I fail to see the importance of the distinction." Yeah? So you'd just as soon fuck a living person as a dead one? What's the point of the distinction? Oh, right-one's normal, and one's called necrophilia." Viscarro sighed. "Touche, I suppose.

All the things that are white are not milk.

But there is a distinction to be made between tools and machines. The line may be murky, but it's there. Think of it this way: tools help us humans do stuff; machines do stuff and we humans help them do it, by shoveling coal into their bellies, by replacing their worn-out parts when necessary, by feeding lumber into their saw teeth, whatever they need.

I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty.

Did the resulting interaction work out well, or did your distorted thoughts, intense feelings, or overreactions leave you feeling upset? This is an important distinction, a general signal to you that a schema, rather than a useful response, is at play.

Comprendre n'est pas justifier, l'empathie autorise cette distinction et l'intelligence permet, par la compréhension, d'adopter une position critique nous permettant de chercher des solutions.