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 writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.”
“The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“The difference between "active" and "busy" is that the former includes reflection and is directed, whereas the busy life feels out of control and does not seem purposeful or meaningful.”
Source: Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being
“The difference between adding value and spending is, when you spend time, you spend life, you only do something enough for your survival”
“The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!”
“The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.”
“The difference between an achiever and a loser is,
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets.”
Source: World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer
“The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.”
“The difference between an adventure and an ordeal is attitude.”
“The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.”
“The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat the camera with a certain amount of reverence. It is all about the kind of lens you choose, the kind of film stock you use… exactly the sort of perfection of the camera. Whereas, the professional the real professional – treats the camera with unutterable disdain. They pick up the camera and sling it aside. Because they know it’s the eye and the brain that count, not the mechanism that gets between them and the subject that counts.”
“The difference between an atheist and a person of faith? One additional religion in the crazy column. You believe that all religions except yours are crazy. I believe that all religions including yours are crazy.”
Source: Horse Latitudes
“The difference between an “Atypical CIO” and a “Stereotypical CIO” is not about the physical identity but at the mindset level.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.”
“The difference between an echo chamber and a filter bubble in my mind is an echo chamber you choose to in with likeminded people, a filter bubble chooses you and you don't really see it.”
“The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.”
“The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.”
“The difference between an ordinary life and an extraordinary life is only a matter of perspective. Pull the blinds. Look around you. It is a mad, mad world and you do not require ten digit bank accounts to immerse yourself in it. Travel down dusty roads without a destination in mind. Climb a mountain and scream out into the void. Kiss the hell out of a stranger. Skinny dip in a lake. Get lost and lose yourself (they are two separate things). Explore the wilderness (especially the one within). Think less of destiny and more of the moment right here. Because when you are old and ill with your loved ones around you, fame won't matter, nor will the extent of your wealth. You are the sum of the stories you can tell.”
“The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.”
Source: Studies in Proverbs: Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth
“The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.”
Source: Adventures of Ideas
“The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.”
“The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.”
“The difference between apologetics and evangelism is that in apologetics, you are answering objections that the world raises, whereas in evangelism, you are bringing the message that Christ brought. So unbelievers tend to set the agenda in apologetics, and you set the agenda in evangelism.”
“The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.”
Source: My Idea of Education
“The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.”
Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable”
Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
“The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.”
“The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset!”
“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.”
Source: The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You
“The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time!”
“The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.”
“The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.”
“The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.”
“The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.”
Source: The Elder Statesman
“The difference
between being bound
and being connected
is perception.”
Source: Bramble
“The difference between being empowered and being strengthened is reliance. When that object which empowers you is removed your progress is mostly lost. Strive for the latter and independence will occur.”
“The difference between being empowered and being strengthened is reliance. Without the matter that empowers you the progression will mostly be lost. Strive for the latter and independence will occur.”
“The difference between being liked and being tolerated is knowing your worth.”
“The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.”
Source: Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
“The difference between being Mexican and being Chinese, as I can see it, is that when you go to Harvard from a Chinese family, the whole family goes to Harvard. When you're a Mexican and you go to Harvard, you betray the family.”
“The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.”
“The difference between being reactive and being responsive is the difference between night and day.”
Source: Write on: Spiritual Growth
“The difference between being the ‘hunted’ or being the ‘hunter’ is that the former has chosen to be the target, while the latter has chosen the target.”
“The difference between bitter and better is I.”
“The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.”
“The difference between both is that social entrepreneurship has a much more financial transparency. There is no financial viability and that is where a corporate sector makes a difference because we maintain a balance between both the financial status and the social service.”
“The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.”
“The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.”
“The difference between "can" and "must" is the key to understanding the profound effects of self-interest on reasoning . . . The social psychologist Tom Gilovich studies the cognitive mechanisms of strange beliefs. His simple formulation is that when we WANT to believe something, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe it?" Then, we search for supporting evidence, and if we find even a single piece of pseudo-evidence, we can stop thinking. We now have permission to believe. We have a justification, in case anyone asks. In contrast, when we DON'T want to believe something, we ask ourselves, "Must I believe it?" Then we search for contrary evidence, and if we find a single reason to doubt the claim, we can dismiss it. You only need one key to unlock the handcuffs of "must." Psychologists now have file cabinets full of findings on "motivated reasoning," showing the many tricks people use to reach the conclusions they want to reach.”