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Quotes About Difference

Many women could learn from men to accept some conflict and difference without seeing it as a threat to intimacy, and many men could learn from women to accept interdependence without seeing it as a threat to their freedom.
~ Deborah Tannen
I can tell the difference between the acts of a man and the acts of God. That's why I still believe. I could always tell the difference.
~ Dee Henderson
Kita berbagi 97% gen yang sama dengan orangutan. Namun, sisa 3% itu telah menjadikan manusia pemusnah spesiesnya. Manusia menjadi predator nomor satu di planet ini karena segelintir saja gen berbeda.
~ Dee Lestari
THE FIRST ROOTS CREEP UP I am learning to come upon the tree, slowly, to surprise it For the song its memorizing. The water runs up, the sap Runs down… I will carry water for you, if you ask me. If someone Asks me What differences between trees and me? Each is Beholden to rivers. each knows thirst. In those countries where trees walk, they go barefoot, singing madrigals… excerpt, Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson
~ Deena Metzger
genes are not clones. At age seventy their genetic profile will be completely different.
~ Deepak Chopra
The Harvard philosopher John Rawls articulated what he called the Difference Principle: if the entrepreneurship of a rich person made the poorest better off, then the higher income of the rich entrepreneur was justified.7 It makes a good deal of ethical sense. Equality does not.
~ Deirdre N. McCloskey
This is not just a job. This is a passion. Connecting people, connecting the world, making a difference. How many jobs can say I made the world better today? We do that every single day."
~ Delta President Ed Bastian
People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.
~ Demetri Martin
Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?
~ Denis Johnson
Who knows the difference between education and training? For those of you with daughters, would you rather have them take sex education or sex training? Need I say more?
~ Dennis Rubin
El liderazgo tiene que ver con la rendición de cuentas y responsabilidad, y no es seguro que por la subida de una escalera, el poder, la política y la posición. Verdadero líder siempre toma la responsabilidad por el bienestar de su / sus seguidores y la organización por igual a la vez ..... y esa es la gran diferencia entre un jefe oportunista y un líder comprometido, en mi opinión.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Leadership is all about accountability and responsibility, and it's surely not about the ladder climbing, power, politics and position. True Leader always takes the responsibility for the well being of her/his followers and the organization alike, at the same time.....and that's the big difference between an opportunist Boss and a committed Leader, in my view.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
The difference between a Diplomat and a Husband is that the Diplomat remembers the birthday of a woman but doesn't remember her age, while the Husband remembers his wife's age but forgets her birthday. Be a Diplomatic Husband! Don't ever forget your Wife's Birthday, and never let her cross that evergreen age of timeless & tantalizing twenty-five.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
There is a subtle difference between Charity and Philanthropy. In my view, the act of Charity is when you give a fish to the hungry person, while Philanthropy is when you teach her/him how to fish. Our world needs both, Charity as well as Philanthropy.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
There is an interesting difference between a Cat and an Oxford Comma. You see, a Cat has claws at the ends of its paws, and an Oxford Comma is a pause at the end of a clause. It's all a game of claws and paws for a Cat, while an Oxford Comma is governed by clause and pause.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Absolute alterity, as long as it remains absolute, cannot be apprehended at all; there is, effectively, no such thing.
~ Derek Attridge
TMZ' and 'People' magazine are expected to be fluff, 'Time' is expected to be news. You'd be hard pressed to spot the difference between them now.
~ Derek Hunter
You make a good point,' Fletcher conceded. 'See, there's a reason why you're the girl and I'm the boy. You think about things while I...' 'Don't?' 'Exactly,' he said happily.
~ Derek Landy
We're all barbarians at our core. We're all savage, murderous beasts. I know I am. I'm sure you are. The only difference between us, Mr Prave, is how loudly we roar. I roar very loudly indeed. How about you? Do you think you can match me? - China
~ Derek Landy
I think you're shorter than you were." - Clarabelle "Yes," said Scapegrace. "Because I'm in a jar. I'm just a head." Clarabelle shrugged. "We're all just heads, when you think about it. The only difference between us is that we have arms and legs and bodies and we don't live in jars like you do. It's a nice jar, though. Where did you get it?
~ Derek Landy
People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.
~ Scott Berkun
Knowledge is the key to making a difference.
~ Sylvia Earle
Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
~ Robin Sharma
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
~ Yogi Berra