Quotes About Discrepancy

am the puzzle piece that you think will fit but doesn't. The color is a little off, the edges don't sit quite flush. You can't force it. Though you might try.

The piles were a lot bigger than his hole was deep.

As a vast discrepancy in wealth arose between him and his two brothers, Frank tried to redress the imbalance by gambling, only to stumble into fresh fiascoes and exacerbate his reliance on them.

There is a discrepancy between our craving and the world we live in, between our expectations and the way things are. We want the world to be other than it is. Our craving is based on a fundamental misjudgement of the situation; a judgement that assumes that when our craving gets what it wants we will be happy, that when our craving possesses the objects of its desire we will be satisfied. But

Of what good is an armchair of velvet when the rest of the environment does not match? It is like a man going around naked and wearing a three-cornered hat.

This gap in understanding between books and screens is big enough that in elementary-school children, it's the equivalent of two-thirds of a year's growth in reading comprehension.

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

The original statement of cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957) proposed that discrepancy between cognitions creates a negative affective state that motivates individuals to attempt to reduce or eliminate the discrepancy between cognitions

alternative explanations must prevent us from concluding that cognitive discrepancy is not necessary or sufficient to create dissonance.

It was the sort of thing Alex had seen a thousand times in films and on television, and he was shocked by how different the reality was.

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

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

You know, every city in Florida is different.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

If you look at Joshua's six opponents before he fought for the world title, Wilder's six opponents before the world title, Tyson's six opponents. The guys I fought and the guys they fought, it's the difference between night and day.

Vintage never fits the way you think it will.

There is nothing similar between the pharmaceutical and textile business.

During Ronald Reagan's administration, '60 Minutes' ran a segment about the difference between Reagan's rhetoric and Reagan's actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan's team called up '60 Minutes' to thank them for the 15-minute commercial.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I'll teach you differences'. ... 'You'd be surprised' wouldn't be a bad motto either.

Outlier (noun): 1. Something that is situated away from, or classed differently from, a main or related body. 2. A statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.

We knew that our minority students, a lot of them, were doing well," says Richard Lempert, one of the authors of the Michigan study. "I think our expectation was that we would find a half- or two-thirds-full glass, that they had not done as well as the white students but nonetheless a lot were quite successful. But we were completely surprised. We found that they were doing every bit as well. There was no place we saw any serious discrepancy.

Within the organization there is a gap between words and deeds, between what organizations say they will do, or what they are committed to doing, and what they are doing.

There is a jarring disconnect between what I want my real-life intelligence officers to be doing versus what I want my fake TV intelligence officers to be doing.

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.