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Quotes About Difference

He may have been wrong. I may have been. But that, that distance—that chronic sense of being an alien among your own kind—it's not entirely a bad thing.
~ Peter Watts
When you compare the changing room to last season, there is a massive, massive difference. The changing room now is full of men.
~ Phil Brown
Hope opens doors that despair has slammed shut. Hope looks for the good instead of harping on the worst. Hope turns problems into opportunities and fear into faith. Is such hope a pie-in-the-sky illusion? Does it make Christians complacent, content to leave the world as it is? Maybe so for some people, but knowing our future is secure should free us to make a difference in the lives of those around us.
~ Phil Callaway
Discovering that difference all came down to a simple but powerful idea. Liniger knew that RE/MAX was not in the real estate business; it was in the real estate agent business. Its true customer was not the home buyer in the real estate market, but the real estate agent meeting the needs of that home buyer.
~ Phil Harkins
explore the similarities and differences between your views and those of others—and pay special attention to prediction markets and other Methods of extracting wisdom from crowds. Synthesize all these different views into a single vision as acute as that of a dragonfly. Finally, express your judgment as precisely as you can, using a finely grained scale of probability.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
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~ Philip Freeman
A very crude difference between novels and poetry is that novels are about other people and poetry is about yourself.
~ Philip Larkin
At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are not much different from cans of soup. And yet we can do many complex and even fun things we do not usually see cans of soup doing.
~ Philip Nelson
Machines may get better at "mimicking human meaning," and thereby better at predicting human behavior, but "there's a difference between mimicking and reflecting meaning and originating meaning," Ferrucci said. That's a space human judgment will always occupy.
~ Philip Tetlock
Je dis : c'est pour cette raison que tu as précisé que tu avais quelque chose d'étranger ? Il dit : oui, les yeux sombres, la peau brune. Et ce sentiment, qui sait, de ne pas être tout à fait à sa place, ici, d'être une sorte de déraciné, comme si on pouvait avoir le déracinement en héritage.
~ Philippe Besson
It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is found in our culture. It is instead the sign of a certain conceptual poverty.
~ Pierre Clastres
Donald Trump and I have very different views on Iranians. I am confident that if he ever visited the country, he'd learn a lot about the people and come back to the States with a newfound appreciation for the Persians.
~ Jordan Burroughs
Confidence is vital to pushing creativity and creating a point of difference.
~ Asher Keddie
There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.
~ Chen-Ning Yang
I remember very vividly being little and bringing my lunch to school and taking out what was my to-die-for treats from home, whether it was pig ears or dried seaweed, and the reactions of my classmates just hurt, down to my core.
~ Michelle Wu
Everyone has a voice, and I don't think mine is that different.
~ Adrian Pasdar
I think the first time I was ever really conscious of the difference between people's voices was that my mother's voice was so soft and gentle and her pronunciation was so perfect.
~ Marian Seldes
Individual writers can certainly make a difference, but they are working within a system, an institution, that still holds tremendous power over whose voices are heard and whose voices are rewarded.
~ Marjorie Liu
I feel like there's so many voices, and it's necessary for there to be a lot of different voices because we can't all like the same art. That would just be so boring... If anybody wants to hear it, I'm here. It makes for a more interesting world for there to be more than one kind of singer.
~ Amanda Shires
Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned.
~ John Hull
I say to string players in small chamber orchestras, 'it's always easy to become a passenger on the journey in sound, just adding volume to the whole. But if you play in an individual way, it makes the difference between good and great sound in an orchestra.'
~ Itzhak Perlman
Send me to Washington, and if I can't make a difference, I'll voluntarily come back after just one term. Cut the deficit, slash illegal immigration in half, fix our horrific tax system - or I'll come home and help find somebody that can. That's my product guarantee.
~ Robert Blaha
As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.
~ Lauren Graham
I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
~ Jon Huntsman, Jr.