T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.”
“The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.”
“The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions”
“The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.”
“The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.”
“The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire”
“The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.”
“The difference between a good song and a great song is a good song is one that you know, you'll put on in your car or you'll dance to it. But I think a great song you'll cry to it, or you get chills. I think a great song says how you feel better than you could.”
“The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.”
“The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.”
Source: Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections
“The difference between a grave and a rut are the dimensions.”
“The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work”
“The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.”
Source: The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi
“The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.”
“The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it's not 'CO2' or 'climate' or 'temperature.' It's 'development.' [...] Whether you're drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas.”
“The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.”
Source: Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society
“The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.”
“The difference between a heel and a coward and one who jumps in the fire and one who runs away from the fire; is up to the individual in how they manage a given situation.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.”
“The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.”
“The difference between a hero and a villain is that they just make different choices.”
“The difference between a hero and an also-ran is the guy who hangs on for one last gasp.”
“The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining.”
“The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.”
“The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.”
“The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.”
“The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.”
“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.”
Source: Pygmalion
“The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.”
Source: The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders
“The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.”
“The difference between a life laced through with frustration and one sustained by happiness depends on whether it is motivated by self-hatred or by real love for oneself.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.”
Source: Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker
“The difference between a madman and a nincompoop is not all that great, except that madmen probably do less harm.”
Source: The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
“The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.”
“The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.”
“The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.”
“The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.”
“The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.”
Source: Letters from the earth
“The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.”
“The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.”
“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”
“The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost.”
“The difference between a motivational speaker and multiplier is the annointing.”
“The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.”
Source: Confessions of an S.O.B.
“The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I spent time on turns out to be crap, it's never going to be made again.”
“The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'”
“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.”
Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.”
“The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry