Quotes About Distinction

it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind. The technically accomplished buggers are two a penny in any period. Especially in this great age of universal education. He

Representation involves definition, exclusion, separation.

Those of you in the cheaper seats can clap your hands, and those of you in the balcony can just rattle your jewelry.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

Don't waste your time on the little insignificant things,because they will only become important if you can Get them down to the T ,but even then they will still prove to be a waste of time.

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.

Maybe it is this discrepancy between the aging of the body and the longevity of subjective psychology that prompted the establishment of a distinction between body and soul, which seems obvious and natural to many and makes them believe, more or less vaguely, in the immortality of a spiritual principle.

a relationship with time that removes all relevance from the distinction between memory and forgetting, something like a rediscovery or, as in the case of the ritual when it is successful, a renewal.

You do not want to base your decisions on fear. It sounds like we're repeating ourselves, but this is a subtle and important distinction. Fear-based decisions are usually bad ones. Think about the emotional decisions you've made in your lifetime. How many of those came back to bite you in the butt? It's normal for fear to be present. Acknowledge it and move on to handle the danger of the situation.

The purpose of the referee is to present obstacles for players to overcome as they go about seeking their goals, not to constantly make trouble for them. This is a subtle distinction, and one that many beginners have trouble with.

Men who do their work intelligently and earnestly have an aversion to those who want to make literature out of what they do, to make it important.

Sometimes finish and end don't mean the same thing.

There is a very important theological distinction between being a prophet and being a jerk. What burns deeply in the heart of a true prophet is not just anger but love.

I was just talking about you," Cardenia said, coming up to him. "To your imaginary friends, I see." "They're not imaginary. They're just not real." "Very subtle distinction.

That's a distinction that's going to make a lot of difference to the ninety percent of humanity that doesn't know the difference between astrology and astronomy

in addition to eminence, superiority has two other qualities or rather three—simplicity, clarity and generosity.

Man differs more from man than man from beast

The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

Society celebrates mediocrity so much that it does not take much to set yourself above the rest.

Being the best is great, your the number one. Being unique is greater, your the only one.