Quotes About Divergence

would not be human and therefore would have different

Strike felt abnormally huge and hairy; a woolly mammoth attempting to blend in among capuchin monkeys.

It's like you're traveling in a different direction to the rest of us.

Third Doctor: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting

Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

If you do what everyone else does, you'll wind up having what everyone else has.

Or supposing humans had developed different abilities than those they have now and had learned magic rather than, say, calculus . .

Why do what everyone else is doing?

From the perspective of a classical historian, German scholar Hans Stier has concurred that agreement over basic data and divergence of details suggest credibility, because fabricated accounts tend to be fully consistent and harmonized. "Every historian," he wrote, "is especially skeptical at that moment when an extraordinary happening is only reported in accounts which are completely free of contradictions.

If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.

Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a 'weakness'.

One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

Ma forse in ogni caso è difficile rimanere amici per tutta la vita. In realtà, a un certo momento, ognuno di noi cambia, diviene diverso, alcuni vanno avanti, altri rimangono fermi, e insomma ci incamminiamo in direzioni opposte, sicché non c'è più incontro, non c'è più nulla in comune. [Quaderno proibito]

EÄŸer farkl?ysan, yaln?zl??a mahkûm oluyorsun.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

Looking around at the diversity within our human race, it is obvious that 0.01% accounts for a significant difference in how we look, think, and behave.

She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.

Believe it or not, we all want what's best. The root o' the world's ills is that no one can agree on what it is.

Elle n'aime pas sortir, je n'aime pas rentrer. Elle n'aime pas jouer, je n'aime pas perdre. (L'échappée belle, p.63)