Quotes About Difference

The major difference is that love is spiritual, while sex is biological.

The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference.

As Yogi Berra said, "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.

If my brain can ttell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.

To grasp the difference between Universal and Particular, consider that some dress better to impress a single, specific person than an entire crowd.

The story of the Titanic illustrates the difference between gains for the system and harm to some of its individual parts.

The larger the event, the larger the difference.

Just look at how different the large stone is from the pebbles:

There may be some differences in skills, but what truly separates the two is for the most part a single factor: luck. Plain luck.

What a contrast with the other traders who lacked polish!

There is a difference between beliefs that are decorative and different sorts of beliefs, those that map to action.

a) The more nonlinear, the more the function of something divorces itself from the something. If traffic were linear, then there would be no difference in traffic time between the two following situations: 90,000, then 110,000 cars on the one hand, or 100,000 cars on the other.

the time difference between formal discovery and first implementation

If my brain can tell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.

Risk and ruin are different tings.

To value a person, consider the difference between how impressive he or she was at the first encounter and the most recent one.

parts and whole differ because what matters are the interactions between such parts.

the price difference appears to be small enough to be negligible

The forecasters' errors were significantly larger than the average difference between individual forecasts, which indicates herding. Normally, forecasts should be as far from one another as they are from the predicted number.

I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting—something that's all mine. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world. It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

In every family, at some point, there must be someone who feels like an outsider: the one always standing or sitting a little farther from the group in pictures; the older sibling when a new baby comes along; the child from a previous marriage, sometimes with a different last name. Suddenly, I was all of those.

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

You are not me, those eyes say. You never were, you never will be.

Affection and fondness were two different things.