Quotes About Divergence

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.

What one man does, another fails to do; what's fit for me may not be fit for you.

All roads lead to Rome; but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

what's different

They're just different. They experience the world in a different way. Normal is just what's average, it's not necessarily the only way of being, or living—

'Twilight' and 'Remember Me' couldn't be more different.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

No two people see things the same way.

There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

There's all body types, but there's just one size.

I think there needs to be a range of justices, of all types. You can't just pick one type.

All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference.

There are so many individuals. We're not going to all have the same ways of being or priorities or personalities. You can't have this umbrella thing. Even if you look at other artists my age, people are making completely different music and have different goals.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Has every oyster a different taste?

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

People are not the same—it is unnatural to pretend they are.

If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes—some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong—and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole.

Your world and the cat's world are not the same.

When you have a group of people who've had a different professional training, a different professional experience, they not only have a different knowledge base, but they have a different perspective on everything.

If everyone were allowed to interpret the ambiguous passages for themselves, their conclusions might diverged wildly. People would move apart in as many different directions as there were people, the community would fragment, and the world swallow up the pieces and who was to say the great revelation would not then vanish as if it had never been?