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Quotes About Difference

In his entire life he could never quite teach himself to feel a difference between right and left, but his mother finally pointed out a mole on the back of his left hand, and even as an adult he checked the mole when he wanted to be sure.
~ James Gleick
In 'Uncharted,' we do the scenes the same way you would do a film or television show. The motion capture - the performance-capture process - is what makes such a difference for this franchise. So I don't approach it any differently. The other actors and I go in and rehearse scenes together, and then we go in the next day and perform.
~ Nolan North
Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP cards and a credit card. Some food stamp recipients say some cashiers have made them feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.
~ Donna Brazile
My parents felt so uncomfortable coming to the kind of theater I was in; they had nothing to say about it.
~ Eileen Atkins
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Our goal isn't to go undefeated. Like, 'Hey, we're going to have an undefeated season.' Our goal is to win every game we're playing. And there's a difference.
~ Tony Gonzalez
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
~ Zadie Smith
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
~ Charles Kettering
As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
~ Dale Earnhardt
There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.
~ Keir Starmer
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
~ Charles Kettering
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
~ Ellen Terry
The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.
~ Bernardo Bertolucci
There's a big difference between the independent film world and the Hollywood film world, and I don't know that I understood that until I got into certain rooms, and people's faces go blank when you talk about Sundance.
~ Ava DuVernay
I had a few problems. I didn't realise it until I started going to therapy. I did it for 10 years, two days a week, and pretty quickly I understood that a lot of my suffering, many of my issues, were rooted in my realising that I was gay when I was a little boy. I knew I was different. That made me very fragile.
~ Stefano Gabbana
I think that for people who are trying to make a difference, you have to start the company being naive. You wouldn't do it if you understood all the work. I work a lot. I wish it was easier.
~ Anne Wojcicki
Many people compare the agitation of MNS with Shiv Sena because of the mode of agitation. But the main difference is that while Shiv Sena launched an agitation for the poor Marathi unemployed youth, the agitation of MNS is directed against the 'goondaism' of North Indians.
~ Raj Thackeray
So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference.
~ Virginia Foxx
It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
~ Pankaj Mishra
I've never been unfaithful outside 'Made In Chelsea.' I don't care what the reputation looks like. I was unfaithful on that television show because it's a show about that. I'm not saying it was acceptable behavior, but the show wouldn't work without relationships failing. In real life it's completely different.
~ Spencer Matthews
That's the difference between me and a lot of rappers. So many are unfit, just puffing all the time.
~ Dizzee Rascal
I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.
~ David Morse
Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
~ Francis Bacon