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 people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.”
“The difference between people with small eagerness and people with big goals is this: The first group gets tired even when they walk a hundred meters; the second group never gets tired even when they walk a thousand kilometres!”
“The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of imagination, but a difference in the materials with which imagination is occupied.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.”
“The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.”
Source: Encyclopedia of Humor
“The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being
ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.”
“The difference between politicians and us voters . To politicians its all fun and games. Flexing power and chess moves.
To us it is our lives and reality. No matter which decision they take. That won’t affect their salary, job, or lifestyle.
But every decision they make it affects our lives, jobs, and lifestyle. Until we are all in the same boat and share the same problems with them. They won’t understand our suffering and won’t solve our problems. They will make decisions that doesn’t favor us. They won’t have our best interests at heart.”
“The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal.”
“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.”
“The difference between pornography and erotica lies in the lighting.”
“The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.”
“The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and the fascist madly in love with the past. It is that between the woodsman and the woodcarver. It is that between the mystic harking back to his vision and the artist whose first allegiance is to his craft, and so to the reality it presents.”
Source: Poetry in our time: a critical survey of poetry in the English-speaking world, 1900 to 1960
“The difference between poverty and prosperity is the mindset of living out of necessity instead of possibility.”
“The difference between power and respect is that; if you have power, your man will go into a room ready to kill for you but will leave if it gets too hot. On the other hand, people who respect you will go into the same room to die for you. This is the difference between a cat and a dog. People around you must be like dogs, loyal.”
“The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.”
“The difference between predictions and outcomes is the key to understanding a strange property of learning: if you’re predicting perfectly, your brain doesn’t need to change further… Changes in the brain happen only when there’s a difference between what was expected and what actually happens.”
Source: Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
“The difference between President Trump and Steven Magee? Steven Magee publicly acknowledges his mental illnesses.”
“The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp.”
“The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.”
Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion
“The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.”
“The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.”
Source: Loving Our Kids on Purpose
“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.
The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.”
“The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.”
Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
“The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.”
Source: A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman
“The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.”
“The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.”
“The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.”
“The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.”
“The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.”
“The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.”
“The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.”
“The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.”
“The difference between romantic love and friendship love is that romantic love involves a lot of compromise. It is a very giving type of love. With friendship, you can be a little bit more autonomous. You are not expected to compromise, in the same way. Maybe that's why friendships tend to last longer.”
“The difference between sacred and amagician, whoever works of mercy, the patient has cured under his hands. Know that this is godly and a sacred man, make sure that if you call him a magician, you will commit a lot of sin.”
“The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.”
Source: Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
“The difference between Sales and Marketing is that Marketing owns the message and Sales owns the relationship.”
“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
“The difference between science and religion is that one works for the betterment of society while the other only dreams of it.”
“The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.”
“The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.”
“The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing.”
“The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.”
“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“The difference between science fiction and fantasy…is simply this, science fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.”
“The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.”