Quotes About Discrepancy

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

There is an enormous gap between what we think we can do and what God calls us to do.

I remember when I first started modeling, and I would read interviews with people. Then I would see them, and they would always say something entirely different to a crowd of people than they would say privately. I always found that really offensive.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things - especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.

The totalitarian dictators have proved that they knew only too well the danger inherent in their pose of normality; that is, the danger of a true nationalist policy or of actually building socialism in one country. This they try to overcome through a permanent and consistent discrepancy between reassuring words and the reality of rule, by consciously developing a method of always doing the opposite of what they say.

What made me pause here was the pure dichotomy.

Simon's had been littered with empty pizza boxes and emptier beer cans, decorated in Early American Pub Crawl, while Eileen Vaughan's suite looked like something out of an Ikea catalogue, all pale woods and real furniture and freshly-vacuumed throw carpets.

Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The depressed person…sees a big discrepancy between what he aspired to in terms of human relations and life goals and what he can achieve in this meager reality. He cannot solve the conflict. What is available is not acceptable to him, and what would be acceptable he cannot grasp. He experiences the tragic situation of having no choice.

There is always a gap between what we feel and what we say.

Today we produce only 60,000 to 70,000 engineers per year, 40 percent of whom are foreigners, while China produces over 400,000 engineers per year. With this kind of technological discrepancy, we will be left far behind in the not too distant future unless we begin to address our educational shortcomings with more than political rhetoric.

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

My characters in each of my films bear no resemblance to each other.

The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do." - Bob Proctor

But that reality was like nothing I'd ever seen before: a reality that didn't seem to fit.

The bottle and the cap don't fit: is the problem with the bottle or the cap?

Lo que para una persona puede ser una distancia prudencial, para otra puede ser un abismo.

Sometimes on-camera friends don't translate into your real life, but not for me.