Quotes About Divergence

Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.

not only do the edges not fit, they're not even from the same damn puzzle.

En el punto donde esperanza y razón se separan reside el lugar en que la locura se dispara.

the house looked shoddy in comparison with its neighbors. It stood out in the elegant street of terraced houses like a meatball in caviar.

If you want to have everybody agreeing with you, join a club or program or church that agrees with you.

me gustaría pensar que no soy como <> y que mi comportamiento no se ajusta al común de los mortales

It does not matter what is the background of actors as long as they fit the role assigned to them.

I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.

The average is that which no person quite ever is.

The CDU is a party with more than 400,000 members. The fact that each one has a different opinion is what makes us interesting.

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

Basketball is such an escape from a lot of things.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

Ivan and I: the world converging. Malina and I, since we are one: the world diverging.

And everything would be different, different.

The horses start tugging, one this way, one that; the wheels are drawn to such a divergence that they seem perpendicular to the road, a sign that the chariot has stopped. Or else, if it is moving, it might as well remain still, as happens to many people before whom the ramps of the most smooth and speedy roads open.

If we were in a spreadsheet, we'd be in different columns." She'd be under uptight/nerdy/homely girls, and he'd be under badass men with bodies of..um..Navy SEALS. He grunted. "Just so you know, I hate spreadsheets with a hot, burning passion.

The good Lord, in his infinite wisdom, did not make us all the same. Goodness gracious, if he had, this would be a boring world, don't you think? You are different from each other in height, weight, background, intelligence, talent, and many other ways. For that reason, each one of you deserves individual treatment that is best for you. I will decide what that treatment will be.

The left converges on a single answer; the right diverges into a Gestalt. The left focuses on categories, the right on relationships. The left can grasp the details. But only the right hemisphere can see the big picture.

Some work in posh offices with glorious views, others in dreary cubicles with Dilbert cartoons and a free calendar.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

I think you always, with anything, need to have different viewpoints.