Quotes About Discrepancy

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author's part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it.

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the good he receives than to that he gives away. The exchange ratio, the price, is not the product of equality of valuation, but on the contrary, the product of a discrepancy in valuation.

What people said they would do and what people actually did were two very different things.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

It's just dumb: how you can have the number 1 record in Los Angeles and not have the number 1 record in New York? It's crazy.

Too bad he wasn't as nice as his truck.

The reality is, what writers write and the way they live can be as different as a lump of coal and a diamond. The written life is shined to a deceptive gloss.

the differences among them were great, but the reasons they had come to be so different were slight.

I know I'm not perfect, but I didn't think it was fair that they told me one thing and wrote down another.

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.

I came across a quote from the book Art and Fear that says it best: "Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did."3 And the gap never stays silent.

Western though is fixated on the gap between what is and what ought to be.

Doing is at a far greater distance from intending to do than you at first sight imagine. Join

living in a world where nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently." I

consistency, a virtue I have always deplored.

enormous gap existed in the United States between the best medical practice and the average, and an unbridgeable chasm separated the best from the worst.

As the Hopkins medical school was opening, American theological schools enjoyed endowments of $18 million, while medical school endowments totaled $500,000. The difference in financial support as well as educational systems largely explained why Europeans had achieved the bulk of medical advances.

Nothing is so unequal as equality.

What disappoints us most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be.

She has created this moment – no one else – and yet, now it is happening, she finds that it is entirely at odds with what she desires. What she desires is for him to stay at her side, for his hand to remain in hers. For him to be there, in the house, when she brings this baby into the world. For them to be 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.

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